Upgradint to 8.10 and keeping all my files

[Antihero20]

I want to upgrade to Ubuntu 8.10 once its out but i want to keep all my files(videos, music, photos,etc) can this be done? if so then how?

[Elfy]

If you are upgrading then your files won't be touched, if however you need to do a clean install then you will need a seperate /home partition.

If when you installed originally you provided a seperate partition for your /home then when the time comes to reinstall you manually partition and don't format that partition.

If you don't havea seperate partition it is possible to migrate to a seperate one.

If you aren't sure, post the result of

sudo fdisk -l
df -h and we can see from there if it's likely that you have one.

http://www.psychocats.net/ubuntu/separatehome

[Noea]

id upgrade to 8.10 and besides problem with rarian pkg and reinstal gnome enviroment nothing was touched . My files was keeped , the program configuration too.