to backup> rsync -vva ~/ mine is > rsync -vva --exclude=.*mozilla* --exclude=.*chromium* ~/ bmike2@192.168.0.3: /home/bmike2/ :-)~MIKE~(-: On Fri, Jan 4, 2013 at 6:20 PM, Joseph Sinclair wrote: > 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 < > expat.arizonan@gmail.com > >>> 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 > > > --------------------------------------------------- > 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 >