With google I found that with Gparted or tumbleweed installed on a ssd in my pc, or from the command line, I could easely format the home folder. on sdb.
sdb has a working tumbleed install with kde.
What I can’ t figure out, will this formatting kill KDE?
I know some parts of kde are stored in your home folder.
Would a reinstall of kde fix this ?
(start yast from the command line)
I would like to not back up anything from the current home partition. on sdb.
You should provide output from the following for us to be able to offer good advice:
cat /etc/fstab
sudo parted -l
sudo blkid
Please paste output from these commands here surrounded by code tags.
sda - windows 10
sdb - tumbleweed
ssd - Second tumbleweed install.
As we type all 3 os can be booted.
UUID=9c8140f9-0b81-41eb-ab94-d7342c38d218 / btrfs defaults
0 0
UUID=9c8140f9-0b81-41eb-ab94-d7342c38d218 /var btrfs subvol=/@/var
0 0
UUID=9c8140f9-0b81-41eb-ab94-d7342c38d218 /usr/local btrfs subvol=/@/usr/local
0 0
UUID=9c8140f9-0b81-41eb-ab94-d7342c38d218 /srv btrfs subvol=/@/srv
0 0
UUID=9c8140f9-0b81-41eb-ab94-d7342c38d218 /root btrfs subvol=/@/root
0 0
UUID=9c8140f9-0b81-41eb-ab94-d7342c38d218 /opt btrfs subvol=/@/opt
0 0
UUID=9c8140f9-0b81-41eb-ab94-d7342c38d218 /home btrfs subvol=/@/home
0 0
UUID=9c8140f9-0b81-41eb-ab94-d7342c38d218 /boot/grub2/x86_64-efi btrfs subvol=/@/boot/grub2/x86_64-
efi 0 0
UUID=9c8140f9-0b81-41eb-ab94-d7342c38d218 /boot/grub2/i386-pc btrfs subvol=/@/boot/grub2/i386-pc
0 0
UUID=6d17eb33-51a2-4ed2-8cda-fe29e8fefa8c swap swap defaults
0 0
UUID=9c8140f9-0b81-41eb-ab94-d7342c38d218 /.snapshots btrfs subvol=/@/.snapshots
0 0
UUID=3AB8-553F /boot/efi vfat utf8
0 2
Model: ATA WDC WD10EZEX-08W (scsi)
Disk /dev/sda: 1000GB
Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/4096B
Partition Table: gpt
Disk Flags:
Number Start End Size File system Name Flags
1 1049kB 556MB 555MB ntfs Basic data partition hidden, diag
2 556MB 660MB 104MB fat32 EFI system partition boot, esp
3 660MB 676MB 16,8MB Microsoft reserved partition msftres
4 676MB 1000GB 1000GB ntfs Basic data partition msftdata
Model: ATA ST1000DM010-2EP1 (scsi)
Disk /dev/sdb: 1000GB
Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/4096B
Partition Table: gpt
Disk Flags:
Number Start End Size File system Name Flags
1 1049kB 525MB 524MB fat16 boot, esp
2 525MB 27,0GB 26,5GB ext4
3 27,9GB 998GB 970GB xfs
4 998GB 1000GB 2148MB linux-swap(v1) swap
Model: Samsung SSD 980 1TB (nvme)
Disk /dev/nvme0n1: 1000GB
Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/512B
Partition Table: gpt
Disk Flags:
Number Start End Size File system Name Flags
1 1049kB 538MB 537MB fat32 boot, esp
2 538MB 1000GB 1000GB btrfs
[FONT=monospace]/dev/sda1: LABEL="Herstel" BLOCK_SIZE="512" UUID="A63A73D93A73A549" TYPE="ntfs" PARTLABEL="Basic data
partition" PARTUUID="30a4fa2a-4d6a-49f6-b576-f85c3c39644b"
/dev/sda2: UUID="9474-CF21" BLOCK_SIZE="512" TYPE="vfat" PARTLABEL="EFI system partition" PARTUUID="70
e1d660-fa10-4c6b-af84-2f6220bf4308"
/dev/sda3: PARTLABEL="Microsoft reserved partition" PARTUUID="0f63e829-852b-4034-97c7-0d95b4013ac1"
/dev/sda4: BLOCK_SIZE="512" UUID="EA0E76BE0E76837D" TYPE="ntfs" PARTLABEL="Basic data partition" PARTU
UID="5927130e-8679-43f1-9d62-5d879be74451"
/dev/sdb1: SEC_TYPE="msdos" UUID="F9E4-F140" BLOCK_SIZE="512" TYPE="vfat" PARTUUID="74073301-124d-44a5
-94d7-a68ba4d49f7f"
/dev/sdb2: UUID="f032ab3a-eb51-4f2b-a938-98cc7fa90616" BLOCK_SIZE="4096" TYPE="ext4" PARTUUID="041e17f
f-f626-4dba-a549-78f1eb724656"
/dev/sdb3: UUID="83da1f9a-70c5-4519-8ce4-caa8b30c5383" BLOCK_SIZE="4096" TYPE="xfs" PARTUUID="cf35cc4c
-afc8-4d1c-9e5c-12669d595c89"
/dev/sdb4: UUID="6d17eb33-51a2-4ed2-8cda-fe29e8fefa8c" TYPE="swap" PARTUUID="6e842b5a-57f4-4597-bdaf-2
78fe12d7093"
/dev/nvme0n1p1: UUID="3AB8-553F" BLOCK_SIZE="512" TYPE="vfat" PARTUUID="e309de90-d4c1-41a4-bf93-1838b4
eeb944"
/dev/nvme0n1p2: UUID="9c8140f9-0b81-41eb-ab94-d7342c38d218" UUID_SUB="516ade50-eb26-462b-9e77-8fd81a3f
e2d5" BLOCK_SIZE="4096" TYPE="btrfs" PARTUUID="72155361-856f-4c12-8325-119e9b78931c"
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Is there any particular reason why you wish to do this?
What I can’ t figure out, will this formatting kill KDE?
No. KDE is installed on your EXT4 sdb2 system partition, not your XFS sdb3 partition.
I know some parts of kde are stored in your home folder.
Only personal settings are kept there. If they are lost because you formatted the /home partition, Plasma will make new ones, once your basic user directory has been created so that you can login.
Would a reinstall of kde fix this ?
Fix what? What is broken?
I would like to not back up anything from the current home partition. on sdb.
That’s OK, as long as there is nothing on sdb3 that matters to you that isn’t also on a known good backup for you to restore after reformatting sdb3.
Thank you.
The reason why I want to format that partition, is because I can’t shrink an XFS partition.
So I can’t create an extra partition on that disk, for a virtual machine.
When I build this pc, I made mistake. I thought I would have xfs for root and ext 4 for home but as you have seen its the other way round.
This was never a real problem, until I started to use a virtual machine and the installer asked me if I wanted to use a separate partition, (instead of root) for some file storage.
Formatting home to ext 4 will fix this problem because then I can add an extra partition.