/ must be on a partition or LV that will be formatted. Reusing an existing / is not allowed.

[Adam Williamson]

On Tue, 2011-10-18 at 09:40 -0400, Kamil Paral wrote:
> > It means if you're doing a fresh install, you've got to format
> > wherever
> > / is going.  You can't install over top of an existing /.  Is that
> > what
> > you thought it meant?
> > 
> > - Chris
> 
> I imagine this could be very inconvenient for me when switching
> distributions. I always have / and /home on the same partition. If I
> want hypothetically to go from let's say Ubuntu to Fedora, I delete
> all files except /home and then select that partition for /. If you
> force me to format that partition then I can't easily switch to
> Fedora, because my /home is huge and I have no external space to back
> it up.

Why not have /home as a separate partition? This is the classic reason
for doing so. I mean, what you're doing in the above is basically
'faking' a /home partition.
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