On Sun, 2010-11-14 at 00:04 +0000, Alan Pope wrote:
> On 13 November 2010 22:42, <bod...@googlemail.com> wrote: > > I'm gonna have to run through the installer again then, because I don't > > remember seeing it automatically ask me about /home, > > It doesn't ask you about /home at all. It's a kinda hidden feature. > > > and if you were doing it manually and didn't specify a mount point for > > /home and didn't format / then would anything actually happen? > > > > If you were doing manual partitioning over the top of an existing > linux install (i.e. a filesystem exists which contains /bin /etc /var > /usr /home and so on, and you choose not to format that filesystem, > and you choose to install on it, then it will recursively delete all > files in /bin /etc /var /usr and so on, but _not_ touch /home within > that filesystem. > > I find myself explaining this to people about once a month. It's such > a hidden gem of a feature so many people don't know about it, but it's > the single most useful "upgrade without upgrading" feature. > > Al. > I found out by accident cos I had /home on a separate partition in the old-fashioned way - but still didn't know you could still do it with /home on the root partition - it's a very useful tip so maybe put a how-to on the web and then you'll only have to post the link :) Paula
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