[ale] One home directory

[ale at pcartwright.com (Paul Cartwright)]

On Tue October 13 2009, Chris Fowler wrote:
> My heart has stopped racing. ?I've found my file.
>
> The problem I'm facing is how I keep every thing. ?For example I nede to
> reinstall Ubuntu 9.04 on my desktop. ?What I'll do is I'll boot into
> live mode and then create a directory /Ubuntu9.04. ?I'll copy everything
> I have now into that directory for backup then do an install without
> formating.

why don't you make a separate partition for /home. Everytime I do an install I 
make sure I create 2 partitions ( at least). 1 for / ( root, the base 
install) and 1 for /home. When I reinstall, change distros, whatever, I can 
always format / and reuse /home. If you tell it to use the same user, you 
don't lose anything.

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Paul Cartwright
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