My home directory is on a separate partition. I am on 10.10 from 10.04 via upgrade. How can I perform a clean install of 10.10 while keeping this partition? Will it perform as well as a clean install? What will be lost and what will be kept?
Ubuntu – Upgrade while keeping home partition
10.10installationupgrade
Best Answer
When you fresh install Ubuntu you have to manually manage partitions. You can decide where to mount / (root) and format that partition, then you select where to mount your home and choose to not format that partition (you don't check the format option). In this way you don't lose anything even if some configuration folder (.mozilla for example) may change. I suggest to backup Home folder before, in case of errors you can remedy.
Here there's a good tutorial.