preserving partitions during reinstall

[JD]

On 09/09/2012 12:33 PM, Dave Mitchell wrote:
> I just did a re-install of a F14 system to bring it up to F17.
> I wanted to keep the separate /home partition untouched (i.e. keep the
> data), but there didn't seem to be any option to achieve this in the
> installer. None of the options seemed to be able to recognise or preserve
> the partitioning info within the encrypted LVM volume (as originally set
> up by the F13 installer, then unchanged after a F14 upgrade).
>
> Am I missing something, or is this a bug. (This is mostly academic for me
> now, as in the end, I backed-up, installed, and restored).
>
> This was my original layout on a single disk system:
>
>      sda1 		ext4	  500 Mb /boot
>      sda2	 	LVM PV 113972 Mb vg_pigeon (encrypted)
>
>      vg_pigeon:
> 	lv_root:	ext4	13024 Mb /
> 	lv_swap:	swap	 2048 Mb (swap)
> 	lv_home:	ext4	98880 Mb /home
>
>
>
During the phase when all partitions are listed, select the partition
you wish mounted as, say...  /home
In the gui there is n entry where it says
mount as .. and you fill the blank..
Be sure you DO  NOT SELECT TO HAVE IT FORMATTED!!!