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).<br>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Jan 4, 2013 at 5:05 PM, Joseph Sinclair <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:plug-discussion@stcaz.net" target="_blank">plug-discussion@stcaz.net</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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.<br>
A good backup before starting is also *very* strongly advised.<br>
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On 01/04/2013 08:39 AM, Dazed_75 wrote:<br>
> If/when you tell the installer to mount sda6 as /home, be sure to use the<br>
> same file system type and if the is a check box for whether to format the<br>
> partition, be sure it remains UN-checked.<br>
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> On Fri, Jan 4, 2013 at 12:47 AM, Derek Trotter <<a href="mailto:expat.arizonan@gmail.com">expat.arizonan@gmail.com</a>>wrote:<br>
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>> While you're installing kubuntu, choose to manually configure<br>
>> partitions. Either do nothing with /dev/sda6 or choose to mount it as<br>
>> /home.<br>
>><br>
>> I have one whole drive for my home directory. Everything else is<br>
>> installed on another drive. Recently I tried several distros. With each<br>
>> distro I chose the option to configure partitions myself instead of letting<br>
>> it do the job. I would either choose during the install to mount that<br>
>> drive as my home directory or do nothing with it during the install and add<br>
>> it to fstab later.<br>
>><br>
>> On 01/04/2013 12:37 AM, <a href="mailto:joe@actionline.com">joe@actionline.com</a> wrote:<br>
>><br>
>> How can I do a fresh install of kubuntu on one of my systems that now has<br>
>> a corrupted pclinux installed, but protect the /home partition from being<br>
>> over-written? Can this be done safely?<br>
>><br>
>> 'df' shows the following:<br>
>><br>
>> /dev/sda1 12G 5.7G 5.6G 51% /<br>
>> tmpfs 473M 0 473M 0% /dev/shm<br>
>> /dev/sda6 168G 23G 146G 14% /home<br>
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