fresh install filesystem whilst keeping /home intact

**muted1987** · July 14th, 2008

is there a way to reinstall the filesystem as i buggered mine up whilst keeping home directory intact

filesystem and home directory 2 diff drives

**bumanie** · July 14th, 2008

Yes. That is the reason for having a separate /home. At the partitioning stage choose manual with the radio button and choose to format the /partition, making sure you don't format /home. It should be self explanatory once you see the gui.

**muted1987** · July 14th, 2008

Originally Posted by bumanie

At the partitioning stage choose manual with the radio button and choose to format the /partition,.

whats a radio button?

**bumanie** · July 14th, 2008

A little round circle, next to a title that will go black in the middle when it is selected.

**OffAxis** · July 14th, 2008

these things; next to the smiley faces.

**reformedgeek** · July 14th, 2008

So muted, are you saying you already have /home on a separate drive? In which case, the posts above are correct. If you havent, things could get tricky. I suppose you could copy everything over to another partition and reinstall/reformat...