Can I use my old Mint /home partition for Ubuntu?

[spyder0080]

Hello everyone,

I switched from Ubuntu to Mint about a year ago. I changed my disk layout by shrinking my / partition and making my /home partition larger. Now, I want to switch back to Ubuntu when 9.10 comes out. Can I reuse my /home partition without formatting it?

Thanks!

[lindsay7]

I would think so. When you install form the live cd and choose the manual install option, you will see the partitions and how they are set up in terms or /, /home, swap. You would pick the / partition to format and use as the root partition. You would use the /home partition and leave it unformatted. The swap partition will take care of it self. If your old Mint /home is not compatible you should find out at this point in the install.

[spyder0080]

Thanks for the reply! Makes sense to me. I'll back up my files just in case it's incompatible.