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 <expat.arizonan@gmail.com> 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




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