On Sun, Feb 23, 2014 at 01:14:19PM +1100, Tim wrote: > On 23/02/14 12:26, Alfredo Hernández wrote: > > I'm planning to buy a Dell XPS 13 and install Ubuntu GNOME (of course) and > want to have my /home in a separated partition. But having a look at this > answer (http://askubuntu.com/questions/379205/ > installing-programs-in-root-vs-home-partitions), I've just read Ubuntu > (and > by extension Ubuntu GNOME, I think) lets you keep your home folder when > rinstalling the system (aka updating via the LiveUSB instead of the update > manager). > > First of all, you don't necessarily re-install when switching to new hardware > (unless you want to of course). You can quite easily just clone the > installation from your current laptop to the new one and it will boot just > fine > (just disable any binary GPU blobs, if GPU's differ) > > My question is very simple. Does our installer let the user do this as > well? > > Our installer is the same as Ubuntu's. You can select a /home partition during > install (and keep all data in it). I don't think the installer can handle > moving your existing /home contained within /, to a seperate partition though, > so you will need to do this manually first.
AFAIU if you choose manual partitioning, select an existing root partition and uncheck the format checkbox, the installer will delete everything but /home on it. I've never tried that myself. Make a backup, just in case. Marius Gedminas -- /* * The lockdep graph lock isn't locked while we expect it to * be, we're confused now, bye! */
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