Re: Preserving home partition on install?

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Les Howell wrote:


*/Manuel Aróstegui <manuel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>/* wrote:


    On Wed, 2008-04-23 at 11:00 -0400, Mr.John wrote:
     > Hello,
     > I am currently running fedora, but want to reinstall from a live
     > image. I have /home set up as a second ext3 partition. My question is
     > will I be able to install fresh into / and keep my data on /home? I
     > would like to continue using my user directory after the update if
     > that is possible. Are there any important considerations, like not
     > re-using the previous user name? I just don't want to find out too
     > late that the installer blanks /home!
     >
     > Thanks,
     > John
     >

    During the install process you can specify what /home partition to use,
    and whether you want to format it or not.

    Manuel.

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I just installed F8, but didn't see that as an option, as a result I had to reload the full home. It took quite a while. If that option is available, it is not clear from the screens.

As someone else already said, you have to select the "custom disk
layout" option, specify which partition was /home and tell the system
to NOT format it.
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