Question fresh install

[Bruce Marshall]

On Thursday, September 30, 2010, Georgi Kourtev wrote:
> So I decided to do a fresh install soon after 10.10 is available with /home
> on  a separate partition.  My question is what should I do to preserve all
> my work on that machine (which is my primary office production
> machine)?  I do back-ups every week.  It is obvious that I will need to
> copy back all files from my Documents, Pictures and all the rest visible
> directories under /home. Also to follow some of the instruction to migrate
> my mails/addresses/calendar entries into the new install.

If you have the disk space to put a new /home partition along side your 
current install (9.10??)  then just use rsync to copy over all your current 
/home files to the new partition and then do your new install.