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?
