I am familiar with the benefits of having a separate /home
partition when performing system reinstalls; the /
directory is wiped out with the new system files, but user data is preserved in /home
. I am performing a clean Kubuntu install, and would like to make sure I can do this. I am not familiar with LVM options; in other Linux distributions, I have used separate partitions.
The install options are:
- Guided - use entire disk
- Guided - use entire disk and set up LVM
- Guided - use entire disk and set up encrypted LVM
- Manual
Does one of these guided options allow me to separate the /home
partition so reinstallations in the future go smoothly? Do I need to make changes once installation is completed to achieve this? Or is it simpler to just use the manual option?
The "guided" descriptor seems poor. Selecting any of these options is a final decision; there are no further options for modifying the disk configuration after making a guided selection.