Preserving home partition on install?
Rick Stevens
ricks at nerd.com
Wed Apr 23 23:24:45 UTC 2008
Les Howell wrote:
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>
> */Manuel Aróstegui <manuel at todo-linux.com>/* wrote:
>
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> On Wed, 2008-04-23 at 11:00 -0400, Mr.John wrote:
> > Hello,
> > I am currently running fedora, but want to reinstall from a live
> > image. I have /home set up as a second ext3 partition. My question is
> > will I be able to install fresh into / and keep my data on /home? I
> > would like to continue using my user directory after the update if
> > that is possible. Are there any important considerations, like not
> > re-using the previous user name? I just don't want to find out too
> > late that the installer blanks /home!
> >
> > Thanks,
> > John
> >
>
> During the install process you can specify what /home partition to use,
> and whether you want to format it or not.
>
> Manuel.
>
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> I just installed F8, but didn't see that as an option, as a result I had
> to reload the full home. It took quite a while. If that option is
> available, it is not clear from the screens.
As someone else already said, you have to select the "custom disk
layout" option, specify which partition was /home and tell the system
to NOT format it.
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