Oh Sweet I never knew that! Thanks!

2009/12/17 Alan Pope [email protected]

>
> Here's a tip for you though. Even if you don't have /home on a separate
> partition, you can still reinstall (upgrade) and not lose any data from
> /home.
>
> If you reinstall over the top of an existing install, and during the
> partitioning step of the live cd installer choose _manual_ partitioning
> _and_ _unselect_ the 'format' tickbox, magic happens. The installer will
> recursively delete all of the folders in / except /home. So that's /bin
> /usr
> /var /etc and so on. That all gets deleted and the new system gets
> installed, leaving /home alone.
>
> Magic.
>
> Cheers,
> Al.
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