Perserving home partition after upgrading to Ubuntu 24.04.01

Recently I have tried to upgrade from Ubuntu 22.04 LTS to Ubuntu 24.04.1. After the infamous do-release-upgrade my system was bricked and I had to reinstall the Ubuntu 24.04.1 the old fashioned way. That’s when I hit my next roadblock. During the installation, I noticed that the checkbox to format my home partition was grayed out. That’s right - Ubuntu was essentially telling me, &ldquo;You will…