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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: https://i.stack.imgur.com/s9uhR.jpg

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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.

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  • dev/sda5 is your root partition
  • dev/sda3 is your home partition

follow this steps to safely install ubuntu without losing your data

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  • sda1 (ext4) - is my root partition enter image description here

  • 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

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2.now select

  • use as-ext4 journalist file system
  • don't tick to format the partition
  • select mount point as home [/home]

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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 [/]enter image description here

5.now select root partition to boot loader(your sda5)

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now you can install ubuntu without losing data

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