How to Install Clean Without Trashing /home or other usable data

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In the "Why Fedora?" thread, Michael A. Peters wrote:
> On Fri, 2005-10-28 at 12:21 -0400, David-Paul Niner wrote:
>
>>   Fortunatly, in the Linux world, upgrading (for me
>>anyway), has always been a matter of nfs mounting a remote /home
>>directory.   Obviously, the same could be achieved with a local drive
>>(and doing thorough backups!).
>
>
> Yes - that's what I do.
> Not NFS, though - just a separate /home partition.
> I back up my ssl certs etc. - then do a clean install but don't
> format /home
>

That's it? Just don't format /home, but format all other partitions? (Could I perhaps get away without formatting /var/lib, if I break that off as separate? I keep databases and home-built yum repos there.)

Can I manage that if I use Logical Volume Management?

And once I do that: do I then have to re-establish all user accounts in the order in which I created them to begin with?


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