If you have /home as it's own partition, no problem at all. For
example, when I first installed Linux, keeping that exact concern in
mind, I set up a large partition up and set it to mount as /home, all in
the partitioning stage of the install. Now every install after that,
you want to make sure to do a custom partitioning, and ensure that the
partition is not formated, and again mount it to /home. The rest of the
partitions you'll probably want formated.
You can look up websites for partitioning guides too, but it's basically
all dependent on how big your hard drive is. If I only had a 6 gig
drive, on an older PC, I would just have two partitions personally. one
for / and one for swap. If the hard drive is large, I use the number of
install CDs there are as a guide to how big I would need for the /
partition. With 5 CDs, you will need at least 3.5 gigs, so you might
just add a couple gigs for a 6 gig partition if you were being
conservative, or make it bigger if you anticipate installing large software.
Hope that helps,
Jeff
Dennis Bagley wrote:
If you wanted to switch to a different distro but keep a bunch of
files you had in your home directory......
Besides making backups - is there a way to install the new distro and
keep your home directory pretty much intact?
(not re-format and not erase everything?)
Dennis
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