On Mon, Aug 24, 2020 at 1:15 PM Chris Murphy <lists@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > 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. Final release criteria probably adequately covers it: "The installer must be able to create and install to any workable partition layout using any file system and/or container format combination offered in a default installer configuration." Beta release criteria is a bit of a gray area but is fudgable: "Custom partitioning When using both the installer-native and the blivet-gui-based custom partitioning flow, the installer must be able to: - Assign mount points to existing storage volumes" Is a Btrfs subvolume a "storage volume"? I know what's meant by that, because there's only one way it can work right now in Custom partitioning with Btrfs, and that's if this is a reference to subvolumes. However, we can't always consider subvolumes to be storage volumes. For example, the encryption requirement in this same section: - Encrypt newly-created storage volumes If you are reusing a 'home' subvolume for /home, on a non-encrypted Btrfs, there's no way to encrypt any newly created subvolume on that same Btrfs file system. Here's another one: - Assign sizes to newly-created storage volumes and containers Subvolumes don't have size. - Remove existing storage volumes Subvolumes can be deleted in Custom and Advanced Custom. Anyway, it might be OK to just insert "(or subvolumes)" or "/subvolumes" everywhere it applies. -- 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
