/home when moving to Fedora from Ubuntu

bitlord bitlord0xff at gmail.com
Sat May 16 12:56:49 UTC 2015


On Sat, 16 May 2015 17:46:39 +0530
Kalpa Welivitigoda <callkalpa at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> I am using Ubuntu 13.10 and I am about to move to Fedora 21. I have a
> separate partition for /home in ubuntu.
> 
> When I try to install Fedora, in disk partitioning (I chose manual
> option), for / I chose the same / in ubuntu and mark it as format.
> Then I selected the /home partition of ubuntu and enter the mount
> point as /home. Still the older /home is listed under Ubuntu (the
> new /home is there as well). Should I remove the ubuntu /home from
> the list? Or proceed without any changes. I need to preserve and use
> the data that was there in ubuntu /home.

I'm not sure if I understand everything, but I guess you see two
"/home" entries in anaconda (installer) partitioning. One for a new
system, and one "from old" (bottom of the list) (not sure how to
describe this, I saw it before). I sometimes re-use partitions when
"re-installing" systems, this is normal when you don't format them.


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