On 16 September 2010 09:05, ian pettitt <ian.pett...@bbsrc.ac.uk> wrote: > I think that is correct. I have my /home on a separate partition to the > system (/), so when I have reinstalled my data, settings, email etc. are > retained >
I've lost count of how many times I've said this but it seems many people don't know. You do not need a separate /home partition to achieve that. The installer has for some time now supported reinstalling 'over the top' of an existing install _without_ deleting /home, whether it's a separate partition or just a subdirectory on your root (/) partition. To achieve a reinstall/upgrade of this nature simply boot from a recent CD and when you get to the partitioning step, choose to 'manually' partition the disk. Choose where you want to install and make sure 'Format' is _not_ ticked. The installer will go through /bin, /usr, /var, /etc, /lib and so on deleting all files before the installation starts. It will _not_ delete /home. Of course this only preserves /home, not your settings in /etc nor mysql databases in /var or anything else outside of /home, but it's a very useful feature. Cheers, Al. -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
