Upgrade from 8.04 to 10.04 LTS (BORKED)

[Derek Maciel]

I've seen people create a seperate partition for /home but I never
really knew why. The way you explain it wants me to install Ubuntu
again and try it out ^.^

If I have my / partition formatted as ext4, can I make my /home
partition as something else? That way I can access /home in Windows
XP.

On 12 September 2010 20:03, Liam Proven <lproven at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 12 September 2010 22:09,  <clintin at linuxmail.org> wrote:
>> This is not an option as there is no space to available to this plus there
>> is over 30 GB of stuff on this 40 GB drive.  I really needed the update to
>> work and preserve all the settings on this system.
>
> Backup all your stuff, then boot from a live CD, mount the hard disk,
> and delete everything on it except /home and its contents. Be careful
> not to delete the /home folder.
>
> Ideally, then, so you don't have the problem again, shrink /home a bit
> and make a separate filesystem, ideally before /home on the disk, for
> / (the root filesystem). This is much preferable and now you've
> experienced why.
>
> When you reinstall, tell the installer to use the /home volume for
> /home and (VERY important) *NOT* to format it. It will pick up all
> your existing settings and customisations - you'll just have to
> reinstall any programs you've added by hand.
>
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