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One of the reasons I believe that having /home on a separate hard drive was that it would be easier to maintain you're data if you need to do a re-install.

My question though is it as simple as just running a new install on the OS hard drive or do you need to do certain steps (apart from a back-up) before re-installing Ubuntu?

For example do you need to use same username/computername and passwords?

In my case Ubuntu 14.04 is the only OS used and I have encrypted the OS but not /home.

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What to do when reinstalling Ubuntu when /home on a seperate HDD?

Mount /home but do not set it to format the partition. Use the same username during re-installation.

For example do you need to use same username

No, but it would be adviced. If you use another name you will end up with TWO users in /home each with their own permissions and (same) user ID. You will need to do a lot of manual work to have both work together. It is possible also to just remove the old user but what would be the idea behind putting it on a separate partition if you do that?

computername

No.

and passwords?

No.

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