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Upgrade to Waldorf while keeping /home from Statler

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http://crunchbang.org – lwfitz wrote:If Im not mistaken when you manually partition in the installer you have the option to either format or keep existing files. This (in theory) would do exactly that. Right?It should. I was just making sure I mentioned it (again).I have 6 different hard drives and very rarely keep anything of importance on my /home. One to many catastrophic failures made me a bit obsessive about not losing files Me too -- I have several distros on my main machine, and it has a shared partition so I can keep music, pictures, documents, and even scripts in the shared partition and only have config fil (HowTos)

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