re-install

[Colin Law]

On 18 March 2013 14:23, Liam Proven <lproven at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 18 March 2013 13:32, Colin Law <clanlaw at googlemail.com> wrote:
>> On 18 March 2013 11:39, Ash Wyllie <ashwmls at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> I've just re-installed Ubuntu. Before I started I backed up /home/user
>>> to an external drive. I then copied the backup to /home on the new
>>> system.
>>
>> Did you backup the hidden folders (.local etc)?
>>
>> Did you restore the hidden folders?
>
> Those are really good questions - I forgot that crucial detail.
>
>> For future reference, if you install ubuntu over the top of an
>> existing ubuntu installation and go through the "something else"
>> option in the installer, then select the existing partition to install
>> into, but do /not/ select Format for that partition, then Ubuntu will
>> be installed over the existing version but will leave /home alone
>> (even if it is not a separate partition).
>
> This is true, yes, but that doesn't help you go from a
> single-partition installation to a separate-/home one.

Correct, but for someone in the situation the OP was in, wanting to
re-install but without separate home partition, it is a good way to
go.  Also not everyone thinks that a separate home partition is
necessarily a good idea.  Myself for example.  Having flicked
backwards and forwards over the years I have come the conclusion that
(for me) it is not worth the (slight) extra hassle.

Colin

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