On Mon, Aug 24, 2020 at 1:12 PM Chris Murphy <lists(a)colorremedies.com> wrote:
On Mon, Aug 24, 2020 at 4:40 AM Alessio <alciregi(a)posteo.net> wrote:
>
> Hello.
> I was performing some random test of F33.
> There is a thing that I can't understand.
> If I reinstall the system on an disk where I already installed Fedora
> 33 before, and I want to preserve the content of the home subvolume, is
> this feasible? I tried various things using Anaconda, but I'm still not
> able to figure out how to achieve this task.
It is possible.
Using Custom partitioning UI, I suggest in order:
1. Create /boot/efi or BIOS Boot mount point (can be reused or reformatted)
2. Create /boot mount point (can be reused or reformatted)
3. Create / mount point (this is required to be a new subvolume)
4. Locate the home subvolume you want, the current UI it's pretty easy
to find if there are no snapshots; if there are many snapshots, you'll
have to look around for it.
5. Click on that subvolume, and on the right hand side at the top,
find Mount Point field; type in /home; click Update Settings button.
6. Click Done
This is a rough draft :) I'm going by memory.
In fact, we should probably make this a Test Case. And discuss making
it a release blocking criterion, as it's a significant feature. We've
always had this capability with LVM+ext4 because /home was a separate
file system that you can just reuse. And the steps are pretty much the
same for it as for Btrfs.
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Chris Murphy