Upgrading Ubuntu from 12.04 to 14.04

[Uri Even-Chen]

Thank you, it's a good idea. At work my home directory is not in a separate
partition so it's not kept if I reinstall Ubuntu. Do you know how I can
create a partition and move it to a separate partition?

Uri Even-Chen
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On Thu, May 15, 2014 at 3:46 PM, Ori Idan <ori at helicontech.co.il> wrote:

>
> On Thu, May 15, 2014 at 3:20 PM, Uri Even-Chen <uri at speedy.net> wrote:
>
>> Hi people,
>>
>> I work at my job with Ubuntu 12.04 and we run Django 1.4.12 locally with
>> Python 2.7.3 and PostgreSQL. We want to upgrade Django from 1.4 to 1.6 and
>> I also thought it would be a good idea to upgrade Python to 2.7.6 and maybe
>> even 3, so I tried to upgrade Ubuntu to 14.04. But after I completed the
>> upgrade, Django didn't work and I couldn't even run migrations (with
>> South). I had to reinstall Ubuntu 12.04 and I lost all the files I had in
>> my home directory (because I chose not to keep Ubuntu 14.04) except some
>> files that I backed up. My questions are:
>>
>> 1. What do we need to do in order for Django to work with Ubuntu 14.04?
>> 2. Why isn't it possible to reinstall Ubuntu 12.04 after upgrading to
>> 14.04 and still keep all the files in my home directory, while not keeping
>> all the other files (the operating system files)?
>>
> Why do you think it is not possible?  I do it all the time.
> I  keep my home directory in a separate partition so when I upgrade (or
> downgrade) the OS the home directory stays the same.
>
> --
> Ori Idan
>
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