[ubuntu-in] Clean Install or Dist Upgrade - which is better

[ramnarayan.k at gmail.com]

Satish Chandra wrote:
> 
> 
> A neat trick for preserving your settings is to have the /home folder on
> a separate partition. So even if the upgrade doesn't go well, you can do
> a fresh install on the root partition without disturbing the /home
> partition and most of the settings will be the same as before. When I
> did a fresh install for edgy over dapper, it looked exactly same as
> dapper as I had a separate partition for /home.

Yeah, I guess this is one of the most basic prerequisites when
partitioning for Linux and luckily have it separate

thanks
ram