On 16 November 2010 08:06, Thomas Ibbotson <thomas.ibbot...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 14 November 2010 00:04, Alan Pope <a...@popey.com> wrote: >> 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. >> > > Huh. I reinstalled from scratch yesterday due to upgrade issues with > 10.10, and I wanted to use this feature, but I couldn't find out how > to do it. So I created a new partition and resized the old one, giving > me the chance to copy anything across I needed. Eventually I will > delete the old partition and expand the new one.
Go down the advanced route on the install, then click Change or Edit or whatever it is against your original '/' partition and set it to '/' but do not select format. That is all there is to it if I remember correctly Colin -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
