Unfortunately I have had a different experience; if I use the same username (typical) it copies the skeleton over the user dir, and everything that matches (most things in my case) gets wiped out. I learned that the hard way a couple times (fortunately I had backups all but the first time, long ago) before I learned to just backup and rename the homedir for safety, then copy over what I wanted/needed to keep after the upgrade. On 01/04/2013 05:35 PM, Dazed_75 wrote: > Interesting as I have done this many times without having the user wiped > out as long as I am staying in the same family (debian based versus fedora > which use a different base uid). Of course, I was always doing systems > which also had only 1 end user so I could count on the old and new uid to > be the same (1000 for debian derivatives or 500 for some others). > > On Fri, Jan 4, 2013 at 5:05 PM, Joseph Sinclair > wrote: > >> I would add, that you should rename the old user homedir to something else >> from single-user-mode before the install, otherwise the account creation >> during install will wipe out the existing user home directory. >> A good backup before starting is also *very* strongly advised. >> >> On 01/04/2013 08:39 AM, Dazed_75 wrote: >>> If/when you tell the installer to mount sda6 as /home, be sure to use the >>> same file system type and if the is a check box for whether to format the >>> partition, be sure it remains UN-checked. >>> >>> On Fri, Jan 4, 2013 at 12:47 AM, Derek Trotter >> wrote: >>> >>>> While you're installing kubuntu, choose to manually configure >>>> partitions. Either do nothing with /dev/sda6 or choose to mount it as >>>> /home. >>>> >>>> I have one whole drive for my home directory. Everything else is >>>> installed on another drive. Recently I tried several distros. With >> each >>>> distro I chose the option to configure partitions myself instead of >> letting >>>> it do the job. I would either choose during the install to mount that >>>> drive as my home directory or do nothing with it during the install and >> add >>>> it to fstab later. >>>> >>>> On 01/04/2013 12:37 AM, joe@actionline.com wrote: >>>> >>>> How can I do a fresh install of kubuntu on one of my systems that now >> has >>>> a corrupted pclinux installed, but protect the /home partition from >> being >>>> over-written? Can this be done safely? >>>> >>>> 'df' shows the following: >>>> >>>> /dev/sda1 12G 5.7G 5.6G 51% / >>>> tmpfs 473M 0 473M 0% /dev/shm >>>> /dev/sda6 168G 23G 146G 14% /home >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> --------------------------------------------------- >>>> PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org >>>> To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: >> http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss >>>> >>>> >>>> -- >>>> "I get my copy of the daily paper, look at the obituaries page, and if >> I�m not there, I carry on as usual." >>>> >>>> Patrick Moore >>>> >>>> >>>> --------------------------------------------------- >>>> PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org >>>> To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: >>>> http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss >>>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> --------------------------------------------------- >>> PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org >>> To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: >>> http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss >> >> >> --------------------------------------------------- >> PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org >> To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: >> http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss >> > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: > http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss