Reinstall best practices

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jeremy.b
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I am reinstalling Trisquel. I intend on keeping only /home partition. However, I don't have experience with this procedure. Should I include any other partitions, or is there some special steps I should incur to keep data properly? From my understanding, All I need to do it mark the home flag with home, and do not format and keep existing data, is this correct, and all that is needed?

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You must choose the "Something else" type of installation. At the disk partitioning step, indicate, using the related drop-down menu, that your existing /home partition is to be mounted at /home, and, using the related check box, that it is *not* to be formatted. Besides that, you can do whatever you want. Nevertheless you need a partition that will be mounted at / and you certainly want a swap partition too (you may reuse the existing one).

That works without LVM (that I have never learnt) at least.