preserving partitions during reinstall

[Suvayu Ali]

On Mon, Sep 10, 2012 at 04:17:43PM -0700, Rick Stevens wrote:
> On 09/10/2012 03:47 PM, Suvayu Ali uttered this comment:
> >
> >You say your original partitioning was custom partitioning, then how do
> >you expect Anaconda will figure it out without help?  The way to do what
> >you want would be to enter custom partitioning, not delete any of the
> >existing partitions, specify the appropriate mount points (again only
> >you know this, no way Anaconda can figure this out), and then continue
> >with your upgrade as usual.
> 
> IIRC, "Replace Existing Linux System(s)" will keep the existing
> partitioning. It just replaces the OS--assuming it'll fit.

You are probably right; but I think it does that only if you have a /,
/home and maybe /boot.  But if you have other non-standard stuff maybe
not.

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Suvayu

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