On 01/23/2013 09:38 AM, Andras Simon wrote:
2013/1/23, Dave Cross <davorg@xxxxxxxxx>:
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I have a separate /home partition which contains all of my important
data. Therefore I want to do a new installation of Fedora 18 but reuse
the existing /home partition. In the old Anaconda that was simple. I'd
just use set up a customised partition layout, telling it to reuse the
/home partition and to do what it wanted with the rest of the disk.
But I can't work out how to do that on the new version of Anaconda.
The new partitioning sets up this artificial distinction between the
old Fedora 17 installation and the new Fedora 18 one and I can't see
how to tell the new installation to use a partition from the old one.
It's all quite confusing, but these may help:
http://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/Fedora/18/html/Installation_Guide/s1-diskpartsetup-x86.html
http://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/Fedora/18/html/Installation_Guide/s1-diskpartitioning-x86.html
I accept that this probably isn't a really common use case, but it
seems a shame to lose functionality that some of your users are using.
I'd be surprised if it was not a common use case...
Actually there is a LOT in the /home/user directory that can be version
specific. All those dot directories. From F15 to F16 for gnome 2 to 3
would have been VERY painful.
I rsync all my data to an external drive, do a total install. Make sure
it is working. Install other stuff I want, THEN rsync the data back. I
guess I got burned some time ago on this and once burned...
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