Re: Preserving home partition on install?

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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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