On Thu, Nov 4, 2010 at 2:27 PM, Daniel Hollocher <danielholloc...@gmail.com> wrote: >> That is a common misconception. Reinstalling Ubuntu on the same >> partition doesn't lose the user's data either. >> >> A problem that is both real and more interesting, is working out why so >> many people have that misconception, and how we can correct it. > > Is this really a misconception? I thought there was a point in time > that you did need to have a separate /home for what we are talking > about.
You needed a separate home for that until Hardy, if memory servers. So it's not an ancient feature, but it's not exactly new at this point either. > Also, do you know how widespread the policy is? ie, is it Ubuntu > only, debian based distros, or all of linux? I have no idea. I imagine it's part of Ubiquity, not debian-installer, which would make it Ubuntu-specific. Cheers, Evan -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-discuss