On a fresh install, is there a way to tell to installer not to format the /home partition (from a previous install)?
TIA
On a fresh install, is there a way to tell to installer not to format the /home partition (from a previous install)?
TIA
Just use the expert partitioner. Tell it to start with existing partitions.
You can then click “Edit” on a partition to say what is to be done.
On your root partition, tell it to format and mount at “/”.
On your home partition, tell it DO NOT FORMAT but mount at “/home”.
For the swap partition, tell it to mount as swap – I usually don’t reformat.
If you have a separate “/boot”, tell it to format that and mount at “/boot”.
On a UEFI system, you must also set your EFI partition to mount at “/boot/efi” (but DO NOT FORMAT).
This is pretty much how I do most of my installs.
Super! Thank you very much.
Steve