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As you can see in my previous post (click here), I'm getting a new motherboard. However, I saw in WikiHow (click here) that I have to reinstall every operating system in my drives. However, (also because I am a distro hopper sometimes) I'm fed of backing up my entire /home folder and copying it to the new installation.

I have seen somewhere that if you don't want to wipe the entire Linux partition and lose data, you can create a partition during installation & mount it in the /home mount point. I have seen it multiple times, and now (since I want to change from Xubuntu to Ubuntu) I regret not doing that.

I can copy my files on to an external hard drive, but my problem is creating the partition & the mount point. Will it be recognized by the system and /etc/fstab?

na-no.
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    There is an entire article about that on the Ubuntu Wiki: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Partitioning/Home/Moving. – Jos Mar 14 '18 at 14:26
  • There is probably no reason for re-installing the OS because of a change of motherboard. This should not be a problem for ubuntu. and about migration from xubuntu to ubuntu, you could simply remove the xubuntu-desktop package and add the ubuntu-desktop package, see also : https://askubuntu.com/a/19944/454520 – pim Mar 14 '18 at 14:28
  • @pim Ubuntu isn't my issue, it's Windows!(drivers & dualboot) Plus, I want to remove the pre-installed Xubuntu packages and have a fresh Ubuntu install. – na-no. Mar 14 '18 at 17:22

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