I have done the /home partition following the psychocats tutorial, and it worked perfectly.
What brings me here at this moment is my latest blunder, um- adventure. I was updating some packages and added debian repositories to my synaptic, and hit update, walked away, pretty much updating some 995 odd files. Well, long story short, my Ultimate Edition 1.6 broke, but my /home is still standing and accessible.
This was good for a number of reasons, first being it forced me to install 1.7...
Now my question...
How ( easy enuff to figure out I think) so maybe it should be CAN or SHOULD- I mount my seperate /home partition as a replacement for the /home that installed with 1.7? Is there a better, wiser way to do this? I was hoping to keep all my settings and passwords and all those stupid little things we set up and take for granted after a while all back in place.
I was going to specify the existing partition as the /home directory upon installing 1.7, but I wasnt sure if it would get overwritten...I didnt have room to back it up fully, since its about 275GB.
Any thoughts, suggestions or flaming?
jfg69