Re: new installation preserving /home partition
On Sat, September 8, 2012 1:51 am, lee wrote:
> "Weaver" <weaver@riseup.net> writes:
>
>> On Fri, September 7, 2012 5:33 pm, Mauricio Calvao wrote:
>>> to move on to Debian 6 (squeeze) and then possibly even to Debian sid,
>>> which I have already used for some time as the aptosid
>>> distribution. I would like however to preserve my /home partition. Is
>>> that **advisable** or should I delete this partition as well?
>>
>> No, you can do that.
>> The facility to have the /home partition specified, in a new install, is
>> there along with the choice to preserve the data on it.
>>
>> I usually install a /, swap and /home partition.
>> If I nuke an install, replacing the root partition only and merely
>> specifying the other two works.
>
> It's saver to use a "fake" home during installing and then switch over
> to the real one once the new installation works. I rather have the
> installer not touch my home partition and, if possible, physically
> disconnect the disks while installing. It's easy to make a little
> mistake ...
Perhaps so, but if that's the case, I haven't made that 'little mistake'
on at least thirty occasions.
That's with reinstalling with the stable disc of the time, then upgrading
all the way back up to unstable.
No back up.
Nothing!
Regards,
Weaver
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