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I just want to drag files to the drive and be done with it, I want it to be like a usb or external hard drive. Completely separate from my main storage partition. I want to do this because I want to upgrade from 12.04 to 13.10. I would like to make a clean install, to where all my current files are deleted, app data and all. I'm afraid that if i try to restore the files when installing 13.10, that some of the files would be missing or damaged. Tell me, am i being too irrational and paranoid or what?

I have ubuntu installed on only one partition containing everything and I want to backup my personal files without the use of and external storage because I want to start a fresh new install of Ubuntu.

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The files you want to keep are not the old Ubuntu programs. These would be replaced and should be replaced when you upgrade. The files you want to keep are any personal - sensitive - or important - data. All these personal files rely in you /home directory. During the upgrade procedure they will not be deleted. Only if you specify this option (delete everything). But a backup is always a good practice in case that something goes wrong.

You can read here on how you can create a second partition (shrink the big one you have now with gparted) and create another one and use it as a backup partition. It is a very well tested procedure, if you make a mistake I cannot say that. You have to be careful and always shrink from the end to the beginning. Not the opposite.

Then read here on how you can upgrade. Multiple answers there, pick the one you like and what seems to you the easiest.

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