For my upgrade to Leap 16.0, I want to do a fresh install of my laptop. It currently has Leap 15.6 and uses FDE. It is partitioned to use a separate ext4 partition for /home. Is it possible to do a fresh install of Leap 16.0 and keep my /home intact? Will the Agama installer be able to open the encrypted drive and to only overwrite the btrfs root partition?
The reason for the fresh install is that the laptop currently has problems to go to sleep. I want to wipe out any misconfiguration I might have done and hope things get better then.
That’s how we’ve configured all our machines here … we always have a separate /home, using XFS filesystem … and we use BTRFS for the / partition.
The Agama installer is new, so let’s hope when the GA is available, it has the capability to recognize the existing /home, correctly, and honors its existence.
It goes without saying, do a backup of /home before the install
As far as the encryption part … I don’t yet have an answer, since GA is not out yet
Thanks for your response. I now realized: before asking I should just have tried.
So I now downloaded and started the installer for the Leap 16 RC. When analyzing disks, it detects that they are encrypted and asks me for the passwords - three times for different partitions, I thing this was for /, /home and swap.
The partitioner first proposes to delete and recreate everything, but it also allows to specify which partitions to keep. I have to play a little bit more with that, but I’m pretty sure I can keep my /home. From this, I assume that I can easily achieve my goal.
And yes: backup is a MUST, not only before a reinstall.
