Unfortunately I have had a different experience; if I use the same username (typical) it copies the skeleton over the user dir, and everything that matches (most things in my case) gets wiped out.
I learned that the hard way a couple times (fortunately I had backups all but the first time, long ago) before I learned to just backup and rename the homedir for safety, then copy over what I wanted/needed to keep after the upgrade.

On 01/04/2013 05:35 PM, Dazed_75 wrote:

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).

On Fri, Jan 4, 2013 at 5:05 PM, Joseph Sinclair
<plug-discussion@stcaz.net>wrote:

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 <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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