How to do a fresh install and protect /home ?

[Dazed_75]

Interesting as I have done this many times without having the user wiped
out as long as I am staying in the same family (debian based versus fedora
which use a different base uid).  Of course, I was always doing systems
which also had only 1 end user so I could count on the old and new uid to
be the same (1000 for debian derivatives or 500 for some others).

On Fri, Jan 4, 2013 at 5:05 PM, Joseph Sinclair
<plug-discussion at stcaz.net>wrote:

> I would add, that you should rename the old user homedir to something else
> from single-user-mode before the install, otherwise the account creation
> during install will wipe out the existing user home directory.
> A good backup before starting is also *very* strongly advised.
>
> On 01/04/2013 08:39 AM, Dazed_75 wrote:
> > If/when you tell the installer to mount sda6 as /home, be sure to use the
> > same file system type and if the is a check box for whether to format the
> > partition, be sure it remains UN-checked.
> >
> > On Fri, Jan 4, 2013 at 12:47 AM, Derek Trotter <expat.arizonan at gmail.com
> >wrote:
> >
> >>  While you're installing kubuntu, choose to manually configure
> >> partitions.  Either do nothing with /dev/sda6 or choose to mount  it as
> >> /home.
> >>
> >> I have one whole drive for my home directory.  Everything else is
> >> installed on another drive.  Recently I tried several distros.  With
> each
> >> distro I chose the option to configure partitions myself instead of
> letting
> >> it do the job.  I would either choose during the install to mount that
> >> drive as my home directory or do nothing with it during the install and
> add
> >> it to fstab later.
> >>
> >>  On 01/04/2013 12:37 AM, joe at actionline.com wrote:
> >>
> >> How can I do a fresh install of kubuntu on one of my systems that now
> has
> >> a corrupted pclinux installed, but protect the /home partition from
> being
> >> over-written?  Can this be done safely?
> >>
> >> 'df' shows the following:
> >>
> >> /dev/sda1              12G  5.7G  5.6G  51% /
> >> tmpfs                 473M     0  473M   0% /dev/shm
> >> /dev/sda6             168G   23G  146G  14% /home
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
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