On Mon, Aug 24, 2020 at 1:12 PM Chris Murphy <lists@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On Mon, Aug 24, 2020 at 4:40 AM Alessio <alciregi@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > Hello. > > I was performing some random test of F33. > > There is a thing that I can't understand. > > If I reinstall the system on an disk where I already installed Fedora > > 33 before, and I want to preserve the content of the home subvolume, is > > this feasible? I tried various things using Anaconda, but I'm still not > > able to figure out how to achieve this task. > > It is possible. > > Using Custom partitioning UI, I suggest in order: > > 1. Create /boot/efi or BIOS Boot mount point (can be reused or reformatted) > 2. Create /boot mount point (can be reused or reformatted) > 3. Create / mount point (this is required to be a new subvolume) > 4. Locate the home subvolume you want, the current UI it's pretty easy > to find if there are no snapshots; if there are many snapshots, you'll > have to look around for it. > 5. Click on that subvolume, and on the right hand side at the top, > find Mount Point field; type in /home; click Update Settings button. > 6. Click Done > > This is a rough draft :) I'm going by memory. In fact, we should probably make this a Test Case. And discuss making it a release blocking criterion, as it's a significant feature. We've always had this capability with LVM+ext4 because /home was a separate file system that you can just reuse. And the steps are pretty much the same for it as for Btrfs. -- Chris Murphy _______________________________________________ test mailing list -- test@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to test-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/test@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
