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: > 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 >> > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------- > 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