<html><head><style type="text/css"><!-- DIV {margin:0px;} --></style></head><body><div style="font-family:times new roman,new york,times,serif;font-size:12pt"><div>I didn't in the previous install, but I have started to create a separate /home in all of my installations now. I will be doing a clean install this time on the laptop, and will have a separate /home partition in it for sure.<br><br>Thanks for the reminder, though. I appreciate the help!<br><br>Dan<br></div><div style="font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; font-size: 12pt;"><br><div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><font size="2" face="Tahoma"><hr size="1"><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">From:</span></b> Paul Cartwright <ale@pcartwright.com><br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">To:</span></b> Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts - Yes! We run Linux! <ale@ale.org><br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sent:</span></b> Sun, December 27, 2009
1:46:53 PM<br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Subject:</span></b> Re: [ale] Recovering Evolution from external device<br></font><br>
On Sun December 27 2009, Dan Lambert wrote:<br>> > I had a system crash in an earlier version of Ubuntu that is on a dual<br>> > boot drive with XP. (note I didn't have to mention the vendor.<br>> > Everyone knows who it is.) For some reason I haven't been able to<br>> > determine yet, the root partition is apprently corrupted, and the<br>> > system won't boot from the Ubuntu installation.<br><br>did you have /home as a separate file system? This is the best way to do it, <br>so you can reinstall ANY distro ( almost?) and format the "/" partition and <br>leave the /home partition alone. I've probably formatted & reloaded linux on <br>my laptop a dozen times, yet I still have all my emails from the very first <br>install.. 4 years later..<br><br>-- <br>Paul Cartwright<br>Registered Linux user # 367800<br>Registered Ubuntu User #12459<br><span><a target="_blank"
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