How to do a fresh install and protect /home ?

[Joseph Sinclair]

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 at 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 at 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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