EOL???

Liam Proven lproven at gmail.com
Fri Sep 24 11:07:32 UTC 2021


On Thu, 23 Sept 2021 at 10:20, Colin Law <clanlaw at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> If /home is in the / partition rather than a partition of its own
> then, when installing the new version, tell it which partition to use
> for / but tell it *not* to format it.  Then it should leave /home as
> is, only overwriting the system stuff.

This is true. It _should_ work, and I've tested it successfully, but
it'd make me nervous to reply on it. ;-)

> Obviously make sure that your upgrades are up to date (and tested)
> before doing anything like this.

s/updates/backups/ I presume?


-- 
Liam Proven – Profile: https://about.me/liamproven
Email: lproven at cix.co.uk – gMail/gTalk/gHangouts: lproven at gmail.com
Twitter/Facebook/LinkedIn/Flickr: lproven – Skype: liamproven
UK: +44 7939-087884 – ČR (+ WhatsApp/Telegram/Signal): +420 702 829 053




More information about the ubuntu-users mailing list