I have Fedora 20 LVM but cannot access it due to grub error which defaults to grub rescue. Can I reinstall Fedora without touching the /home directory on an LVM please thanks Roger
On 08/02/2014 07:57 AM, Roger wrote:
I have Fedora 20 LVM but cannot access it due to grub error which defaults to grub rescue. Can I reinstall Fedora without touching the /home directory on an LVM please thanks Roger
Yes, it is possible. During install, give the mount point for the existing home filesystem as '/home', but just remember to keep the checkbox for formatting that specific filesystem unchecked.
On 08/06/2014 06:58 PM, Rejy M Cyriac wrote:
On 08/02/2014 07:57 AM, Roger wrote:
I have Fedora 20 LVM but cannot access it due to grub error which defaults to grub rescue. Can I reinstall Fedora without touching the /home directory on an LVM please thanks Roger
Yes, it is possible. During install, give the mount point for the existing home filesystem as '/home', but just remember to keep the checkbox for formatting that specific filesystem unchecked.
Forgot to mention that this is possible only if the current '/home' exists as a separate filesystem
If not, the only way to save the data would be to boot into rescue mode using the install DVD/USB, copy the data from the /home directory to an external drive, and then reinstall the system, copy back the data.
On 06/08/14 23:28, Rejy M Cyriac wrote:
On 08/02/2014 07:57 AM, Roger wrote:
I have Fedora 20 LVM but cannot access it due to grub error which defaults to grub rescue. Can I reinstall Fedora without touching the /home directory on an LVM please thanks Roger
Yes, it is possible. During install, give the mount point for the existing home filesystem as '/home', but just remember to keep the checkbox for formatting that specific filesystem unchecked.
Thank you Rejy In desperation I took another but similar route which saved the files. I fresh installed CentOS 6.5 which still has the rudimentary but very easy anaconda. It found the LVM /home directory so I requested to format / and /boot but not the /home. Unfortunately it removed /var/www/html which had web development files but that is acceptable. CentOS now has my original files in that fresh install and I can also copy files across to the fresh install of Ubuntu14.04 on an SSD as needed so while not prefect, things are salvageable. Thank you for your email Roger
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