On 13 November 2010 22:42, <bod...@googlemail.com> wrote: > I'm gonna have to run through the installer again then, because I don't > remember seeing it automatically ask me about /home,
It doesn't ask you about /home at all. It's a kinda hidden feature. > and if you were doing it manually and didn't specify a mount point for /home > and didn't format / then would anything actually happen? > If you were doing manual partitioning over the top of an existing linux install (i.e. a filesystem exists which contains /bin /etc /var /usr /home and so on, and you choose not to format that filesystem, and you choose to install on it, then it will recursively delete all files in /bin /etc /var /usr and so on, but _not_ touch /home within that filesystem. I find myself explaining this to people about once a month. It's such a hidden gem of a feature so many people don't know about it, but it's the single most useful "upgrade without upgrading" feature. Al. -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
