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calef13

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Registered: 2007-06-10

Posts: 142

keeping /home partition after reinstall

Hi,

I want to switch the OS on my home server from fedora to arch. I thought I might change the OS one day and so mounted /home as a separate partition. There is one other 20GB partition for fedora. I want to keep all the files on my /home partition and I heard that you can usually just mount /home in the new OS and everything is fine, but I just want to check that there is nothing I need to do or change. Can I just wipe the 20GB partition and install arch on it?

Thanks,

Calef13

kano

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From: Michigan

Registered: 2007-05-04

Posts: 185

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Re: keeping /home partition after reinstall

Yes, the only thing you will probably have to do is change the user/owner of your ~. Just make sure to not format /home  in the installer.

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calef13

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Registered: 2007-06-10

Posts: 142

Re: keeping /home partition after reinstall

ok thanks, I'll post back about how it goes.

Calef13