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Sometimes, it is not easy to identify the correct meaning of krom:
Krom Petro, la tuta familio vojaĝis. Ĉu Petro vojaĝis? Did Petro travel?
So it is better to know some alternatives to krom, one for "Except from Petro, the whole family traveled" and one for "In addition to Petro, the whole family traveled".
"Krom" can be used to express an exception as well as an addition. The difference is sometimes difficult to tell without context.
In the case of
Krom Petro la tuta familio vojaĝis.
Peter did not travel (if the context does not tell, that did). One can assume that Peter is member of the family, so it wouldn't make sense to mention Peter as an addition, so he must be the exception.
In the case of
Krom Petro ankaŭ ĉiuj aliaj familianoj vojaĝis.
Peter did travel. In this case "ankaŭ" implies that it is an addition an not an exception.
So to answer your question: You can remove the ambiguity by adding words like "ankaŭ". To make sure that we talk about an exception, you can put it at the end.
La tuta familio vojaĝis, krom Petro.
Other words that you can use instead of "krom":
More on that once more in PMEG.
You can follow the proposal of dictionary Reta Vortaro: krom always means in addition to, except when there is a negative. However, this preposition is flexible enough and not so easy to translate literally, because of that I recommend you to use escepte de when you think the meaning might be confusing.
