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How about a separate partition for home?

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post installation /home partition

Using 12.04. I heard but never tried with /home as a separate partition. What my question is just assume that i have already /home and I'm trying to have a fresh install. So at the installation process what steps I've to take.

because my doubts are here:

Are we have to select /home also in installation? Or will it do automatically?

What about all the configuration files in home? Will they load automatically or we have to manually? If so how?

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answered 1 Year ago oileweaty · Accepted Answer

This may be a little dated but still applies. Follow the tutorial from Physocats
"Create a separate home partition in Ubuntu". If you have issues, there is a text-only (command-line-driven) guide for this process here

Requirements:

You must use a live CD for this process, for two reasons:

1.In order to resize your existing / partition, it needs to be unmounted. The only way to unmount it is for it not to be in use, which means you can't boot to your regular Ubuntu installation while resizing it... which means you need a live CD. By default, the Ubuntu live CD does not automatically mount internal partitions and drives, but if you happen to notice the drive appear on the desktop, right-click it to unmount it before starting this process.

2 If you screw up your installation by accident, you can use the live CD to restore your old settings and, in the worst situation, at least recover your important files.