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It sounds like the safer approach would be to do nothing with the
partition containing the home directory during install. Then add it
to fstab after the install is complete.<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 01/04/2013 06:20 PM, Joseph Sinclair
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<pre wrap="">Unfortunately I have had a different experience; if I use the same username (typical) it copies the skeleton over the user dir, and everything that matches (most things in my case) gets wiped out.
I learned that the hard way a couple times (fortunately I had backups all but the first time, long ago) before I learned to just backup and rename the homedir for safety, then copy over what I wanted/needed to keep after the upgrade.
On 01/04/2013 05:35 PM, Dazed_75 wrote:
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<pre wrap="">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
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<pre wrap="">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:
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<pre wrap="">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 <<a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:expat.arizonan@gmail.com">expat.arizonan@gmail.com</a>
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<pre wrap=""> 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
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<pre wrap="">distro I chose the option to configure partitions myself instead of
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<pre wrap="">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
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<pre wrap="">it to fstab later.
On 01/04/2013 12:37 AM, <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:joe@actionline.com">joe@actionline.com</a> wrote:
How can I do a fresh install of kubuntu on one of my systems that now
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<pre wrap="">a corrupted pclinux installed, but protect the /home partition from
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<pre wrap="">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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