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 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@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 > > > > > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings:http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss > > > -- > "I get my copy of the daily paper, look at the obituaries page, and if I’m not there, I carry on as usual." > > Patrick Moore > > > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: > http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss > -- Dazed_75 a.k.a. Larry Please protect my address like I protect yours. When sending messages to multiple recipients, use the BCC: (Blind carbon copy). Remove addresses from a forwarded message body before clicking Send.