"Jonathan N. Little" <lws4...@gmail.com> wrote in message news:ncqd2d$pab$1...@dont-email.me... > Adam wrote: >> Sure glad I did not reinstall Ubuntu. Whew!! > > Unless you really-really-really screw things up, you usually do not have > to. Linux is not Windows ;-) Even if you had to, with /home on its own > partition a reinstall would not have been an issue, you just have to > choose the "Something Else" on partitioning and only format the "/" and > set the "/home" partition mount point and NOT FORMAT it.
I would have to install additional apps all over again. Ick!! > > A tip: If you use gparted or e2label and give partitions labels. Makes > moving partitions and data easier... > > sda1 "12.04-root" > sda5 "old-home" > > sdb1 "14.04-root" > sdb5 "new-home" Thanks, I'll keep this in mind. > > So from a live session when I mount both drives it is easy to keep things > straight when I copy my profiles from old drive on sda to new drive with > newer version of Ubuntu on sdb... > > -- > Take care, > > Jonathan > ------------------- > LITTLE WORKS STUDIO > http://www.LittleWorksStudio.com -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
