Preserving home partition on install?
Les
hlhowell at pacbell.net
Thu Apr 24 07:00:25 UTC 2008
On Wed, 2008-04-23 at 16:24 -0700, Rick Stevens wrote:
> Les Howell wrote:
> >
> >
> > */Manuel Aróstegui <manuel at todo-linux.com>/* wrote:
> >
> >
> > 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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That I saw. It would be nice if the screen also mentioned that that was
how to accomplish the non-formatting install. There is plenty of room
on the screen for the added comment.
Regards,
Les H
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