Re: [Ubuntugnome-qa] Keeping the /home folder when reinstalling.

[Marius Gedminas <marius@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Sun, Feb 23, 2014 at 01:14:19PM +1100, Tim wrote:
> 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.

AFAIU if you choose manual partitioning, select an existing root partition
and uncheck the format checkbox, the installer will delete everything
but /home on it.

I've never tried that myself.  Make a backup, just in case.

Marius Gedminas
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