Hi again, > > Ubiquity can now install onto a partition that has an existing home > > directory without deleting it. It just removes the system directories.
Do you have to do anything special for that to work? I usually keep my /home in a separate partition, but I have another partition with some spare gigs to try Intrepid. This morning I reinstalled Ubuntu in that partition and it destroyed the previous /home folder. > This is indeed exactly the reason we haven't offered a prominent option > of a separate /home; our partition management tools just aren't smooth > enough to cope when (not if) people make the wrong choice for relative > sizes. Actually, the user won't have to make a choice at all. Do you think a good choice for an average user could be made automatically depending on the disk's size and free space? Because that's what I'm proposing. If you have lots of free space (enough to ensure that it'll be very difficult to fill / up, and that /home will be big enough that these few missing gigs will be negligible), the installer will recommend you to make a separate partition. If space is tighter, it won't. -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-discuss
