Ubuntu installation question

[Don W. Jenkins]

On 4/24/05, Emil Oppeln-Bronikowski <opi at cyb3r.org> wrote:
> walt wrote:
> 
> >Thanks for the response.
> >
>  That's what this list is for. :-)
> 
> 
> >I was just being lazy and not wanting to go through
> >many cd's to get the stuff back on the hard drive.
> >
>  You can do something easier. Backup your stuff. Put it in your
> /home/user again and run chown -r user:user *
> 
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What you are suggesting is what I have been doing for quite a while to
preserve my /home partition.  In fact I have switched back and forth
between Mepis and Ubuntu, among other distros, just by having the
installation leave the /home partition alone as far as formatting and
then when it asks for a mount point, specify /home.  It will generally
have no problem assigning your good old /home partition as your good
new one, and all your stuff is just as it was.  Of course, you should
back up any critical data on your /home partition first, just in case
you forget and ask the install to do the wrong thing this one time. 
I've been there, too.  Actually, I have three Linux distros sharing
one /home partition quite happily.  Saves space.

Don J.

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