Clean install keeping home folder intact

[Christopher Svanefalk]

Best,

Christopher Svanefalk



On Mon, Aug 20, 2012 at 3:14 PM, John Aldrich <jmaldrich at yahoo.com> wrote:

> Quoting Frank Cox <theatre at sasktel.net>:
>
>  On Mon, 20 Aug 2012 09:57:04 +0200
>> Christopher Svanefalk wrote:
>>
>>  is there a safe way to do a complete
>>> reinstall of Fedora, which in effect simply leaves the home folder as-is?
>>>
>>
>> Is your /home directory mounted as a separate partition?
>>
>>  Definitely the way to go if you don't want to wipe the /home directory,
> but want to do a clean install. That's how I manage to keep several
> directories between clean installs, including my /home.


Alright - is there anyway to set this up ad hoc? Can I just make a new
partition, move my home folder there, and then go ahead with the reinstall?
Or do I need to change something else?


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