Doing a clean install of 9.10

[Bruce Marshall]

On Monday 02 November 2009, Nigel Ridley wrote:
> Not wanting to wipe my [separate] /home partition - how do I know which is
>  my /home partition? This might sound like a stupid question but there used
>  to be a time when /home was on, say, hda5; nowadays with all this uid (or
>  whatever it's called) there is no hda5, hda1 etc. only [stupid]
>  unrecognizable too_long_for_humans_to_remember numbers!
> 
> So how do I format /root and not /home?
> 

A mount command will show you the /dev/xxx where home is located.

Just:

mount

As far as how to avoid formatting /home, it depends on how you set up 
partitions.   If you let the install do it...  I have no clue since I don't do 
it that way.

I always set up new partitions (or use old one from previous releases) and 
then used the advanced method to tell the install what to format and how to 
assign partitions.