"Weaver" <wea...@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 ... -- Debian testing amd64 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/87har8x5hd....@yun.yagibdah.de
