Hi Colin,
I presume that you did not instruct the installer to format the old
/home partition? (If you did, then why?)
Actually yes, and I never realised how dumb it was until I read your
message. I just was used to formatting before installing, so I guess I
never gave it any thought.
So,
Hi again,
I should also point out (because I gave out misinformation on IRC in a
moment of inattention) that this only works when you're using the manual
partitioner and select a partition to mount as /, or equivalent. If you
use the automatic partitioner and select use entire disk, then
On Wed, May 14, 2008 at 09:57:58AM +0200, David Prieto wrote:
Hi Colin,
I presume that you did not instruct the installer to format the old
/home partition? (If you did, then why?)
Actually yes, and I never realised how dumb it was until I read your
message. I just was used to formatting
On Wed, May 14, 2008 at 01:05:00PM +0100, Colin Watson wrote:
On Wed, May 14, 2008 at 09:57:58AM +0200, David Prieto wrote:
Hi Colin,
I presume that you did not instruct the installer to format the old
/home partition? (If you did, then why?)
Actually yes, and I never realised how
On Sun, May 11, 2008 at 10:51:59PM +0100, Sam Tygier wrote:
David Prieto wrote:
Some time ago, I posted this idea on Ubuntu Brainstorm, about the
possibility to use a separate /home folder by default on systems where,
depending on free disk space, it is considered advisable.
The main
Hi again,
Ubiquity can now install onto a partition that has an existing home
directory without deleting it. It just removes the system directories.
Do you have to do anything special for that to work? I usually keep
my /home in a separate partition, but I have another partition with some
On Tue, May 13, 2008 at 09:51:29PM +0200, David Prieto wrote:
Hi again,
Ubiquity can now install onto a partition that has an existing home
directory without deleting it. It just removes the system directories.
Do you have to do anything special for that to work? I usually keep
my
On Wed, 2008-05-14 at 00:33 +0100, Colin Watson wrote:
On Tue, May 13, 2008 at 09:51:29PM +0200, David Prieto wrote:
Hi again,
Ubiquity can now install onto a partition that has an existing home
directory without deleting it. It just removes the system directories.
Do you have
Some time ago, I posted this idea on Ubuntu Brainstorm, about the
possibility to use a separate /home folder by default on systems where,
depending on free disk space, it is considered advisable.
http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/idea/5390/
It has grown very popular, to the point of ranking #10 in
