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@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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