On 23/02/14 12:26, Alfredo Hernández
wrote:
I'm planning to buy a Dell XPS 13 and install
Ubuntu GNOME (of course) and want to have my /home in a
separated partition. But having a look at this answer ( http://askubuntu.com/questions/379205/installing-programs-in-root-vs-home-partitions),
I've just read Ubuntu (and by extension Ubuntu GNOME, I think)
lets you keep your home folder when rinstalling the system (aka
updating via the LiveUSB instead of the update manager).
First of all, you don't necessarily re-install when switching to new
hardware (unless you want to of course). You can quite easily just
clone the installation from your current laptop to the new one and
it will boot just fine (just disable any binary GPU blobs, if GPU's
differ)
My question is very simple. Does our installer let the user do
this as well?
Our installer is the same as Ubuntu's. You can select a /home
partition during install (and keep all data in it). I don't think
the installer can handle moving your existing /home contained within
/, to a seperate partition though, so you will need to do this
manually first.
Has anyone used it before to share his/her experience?
I have pretty much always run with a separate /home partition and
never had any problems re-installing etc. The only things to really
watch out for is when sharing that /home partition between different
distro's or versions in a dual-boot setup, where you can end up with
conflicting configurations on your (shared) user account.
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