Whoops, you are right.  I was wrong.  In my situation. I did an EMC2 
uninstall and then did a Git clone to pull down the development 
version.  I did not do a reinstall off the CD!

Always better to back your configs up - way too much can be lost otherwise.

Dave

On 12/28/2009 3:09 PM, Jeff Epler wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 28, 2009 at 09:47:58AM +0000, Steve Blackmore wrote:
>    
>> Do you know if you can reinstall off the cd without loosing your user
>> directories?
>>      
> If you accepted the default disk partitioning proposed by Ubuntu (which
> places all files, including the OS and home directories, on a single
> partition), then reinstalling with the install CD will indeed erase your
> home directory.
>
>      WARNING: This will destroy all data on any partitions you have
>      removed as well as on the partitions that are going to be formatted.
>      http://www.linuxdynasty.org/images/stories/distros/ubuntu/install6.png
>
> Before installing from the install CD back up any data that you care
> about and restore it afterwords.
>
> Jeff
>
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