I'd love to see how you re-install without touching /home if it is NOT a seperate partition which is the whole point of that link? Secondly, taking a backup oh your /home partition once you have it is 'walk in the park'. Thirdly, it is at https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Lubuntu/GetLubuntuWhich states a couple of times about backing up. "If you do not back up your important data, your data is not important to you". A a noob back in 9.04, I followed it with no problems - I just followed the instrcutions carefully (it was hosted on Psychocats back then).
Regards, Phill. On 30 April 2012 18:17, Colin Law <[email protected]> wrote: > On 30 April 2012 13:32, Phill Whiteside <[email protected]> wrote: > > I think that the passage > > > >> When upgrading from a previous release, it is always a good idea to > >> [[https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Partitioning/Home/Moving | move > /home]], > >> it gives additional safe guards for your own data. In any case, taking a > >> backup is recommended. > > > > > > Should be, placed everywhere that a user can upgrade from. > > Why does that give additional safeguards for the data? If a failed > upgrade corrupts the home directory then it will do so whether it is > on a separate partition or not. Also if an upgrade fails then a > re-install can be performed keeping existing /home even if it is not > in a separate partition (by telling the installer not to format the > partition). > > Finally no inexperienced user is going to be able to follow those > instructions. He is more likely to lose his data trying to move it to > separate partition than he is doing an upgrade. > > Where does that passage come from? > > Colin > > -- > [email protected] > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk > https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/ > -- https://wiki.ubuntu.com/phillw
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