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.<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">
On Fri, Jan 4, 2013 at 12:47 AM, Derek Trotter <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:expat.arizonan@gmail.com" target="_blank">expat.arizonan@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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<font face="Comic Sans MS">While you're installing kubuntu, choose
to manually configure partitions. Either do nothing with
/dev/sda6 or choose to mount it as /home. <br>
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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.<br>
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<div>On 01/04/2013 12:37 AM,
<a href="mailto:joe@actionline.com" target="_blank">joe@actionline.com</a> wrote:<br>
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<pre>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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