How to do a fresh install and protect /home ?

[Michael Havens]

to backup>

rsync -vva ~/ <directory>

mine is >

rsync -vva --exclude=.*mozilla* --exclude=.*chromium* ~/ bmike2 at 192.168.0.3:
/home/bmike2/
:-)~MIKE~(-:


On Fri, Jan 4, 2013 at 6:20 PM, Joseph Sinclair
<plug-discussion at stcaz.net>wrote:

> 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 at 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 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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