On Saturday 12 April 2014 15:59:09 Calvin Morrison wrote: > Honestly I don't think you'll loose your data, as long as you > choose not to reformat it. I can't imagine a scenario where they do > a full disk wipe Do manual partitioning, tell it not to format your /home - but back-up, back-up, back-up. ;-) I have retained /home quite often when installing or reinstalling, and alwasy got away with it so far, but I would never not back-up at least once first, more often if possible. Lisi