Since 8.04 I think, if you choose not to format and install over your previous partition, the /home directory will be left intact.
Neil. P.S. Sorry for the top-post and brevity, this is typed on my phone. On May 1, 2012 10:20 AM, "paul sutton" <zl...@zleap.net> wrote: > On 01/05/12 02:20, Roy Jamison wrote: > > > > I think what we're trying to say is maybe it's time to upgrade ;) > > > > On May 1, 2012 12:13 AM, "Alan Pope" <alan.p...@canonical.com > <mailto:alan.p...@canonical.com>> wrote: > > > > On 30/04/12 11:20, paul sutton wrote: > > > on the partition page i choose set up and tried to partition as > > > follows > > > > > / 50mb > > > > That's not big enough. > > > > > /home 100mb > > > > Neither is that. Also, why have a separate home? > > > > > swap 10mb > > > > > > Nor is that big enough. > > > > Cheers, > > > Ok all that should be GB, so its a 160gb hard disk, what my question > was is why would it not let me create a 100 gb partition and made it 110 > gb, when i told it to make it 100gb, so I had space at the end for > the 10gb swap partition. > > Anyway 12.04 is up and running, i need to get wireless working, so > not sure why when I am sure it worked out of the box with 11.10, and > below. > > Separate home, i was under the impression this made life easier and was > the right way to do things (been using linux for years), if I want to > wipe / later on and install something else, I can do, and it will leave > /home intact and not wipe the data from it, > > > Paul > > > > -- > > ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com <mailto:ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com> > > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk > > https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/ > > > > > > > > -- > > -- > http://www.zleap.net > http://www.ubuntu.com > > skype : psutton111 > http://www.linkedin.com/pub/paul-sutton/36/595/911 > > > -- > ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk > https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/ >
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