I ran into serious problems with my previous Ubuntu installation. I'm now doing a fresh install (Ubuntu Gnome 14.04.02) on an already partitioned disk.
I go to "Installation Type: Something Else" Then I see my partitioned disk. I know that: "/dev/sda5 ... ext4 ... 34999MB" will be the Ubuntu Gnome OS - Does that mean that it will be "Device for bootloader installation"? "/dev/sda2 ... swap ... 4099MB" will be the swap "/dev/sda3 ... ext4 ... 461006MB" is what I want to be my home directory. This has all my data. It's backed up, but I still don't want to format it.
I think that I need to set "/dev/sda5" to be root "/" and "/dev/sda3" to be home "/home"
How do I do that? Gallery of screenshots:
2 Answers
Make dev/sda3 your /home and dev/sda5 /.
Too not format the /home partition, there are some small boxes on the installer under the option "format?"
Make SURE dev/sda3 is NOT checked and dev/sda5 IS checked.
This will reinstall the system but leave your /home the same as it was in the previous install.
- dev/sda5 is your root partition
- dev/sda3 is your home partition
follow this steps to safely install ubuntu without losing your data
sda1 (ext4) - is my root partition
sda6 (ext4) - is my home partition(usually it had large partition and used more MB)
- sda5 swap (ext4) - is my swapiness partition
1.now select home partition (your sda3 but my sda6) and go to change
2.now select
- use as-ext4 journalist file system
- don't tick to format the partition
- select mount point as home [/home]
3.now select your root partition and go to change
4.now select
use as-ext4 journalist file system
now you can tick to format the partition
select mount point as root [/]
5.now select root partition to boot loader(your sda5)
now you can install ubuntu without losing data
