On Sat, 2006-10-28 at 22:07 +0930, Tim wrote: > On Sat, 2006-10-28 at 12:48 +0100, Chris Jones wrote: > > Please tell me how you do a clean install into / (i.e. reformat) > > without losing /home when /home is in / ? > > They didn't... > > They didn't "format" the drive, but they did remove the files before the > installation. That gives you a "clean install". > That seems like it would be (almost) the same as a clean install. However, it is still much harder than having /home on a separate partition and then just letting the installer format the entire / filesystem (along with whatever other partitions you are using for the OS). Doing it that way means you have to do an rm -rf /<directory> for each directory that you want to nuke, and having to also remove any files in / itself... All the while making sure you do not remove /home. Is there more than one way to skin that cat? Sure. Some are simple and others are needlessly complex. This problem is the reason a _lot_ of us have repeatedly recommended that /home be on its own partition. > -- > (Currently running FC4, in case that's important to the thread) > > Don't send private replies to my address, the mailbox is ignored. > I read messages from the public lists. >
