On Sun, 10 Jan 2021 17:31:05 -0700, the...@sys-concept.com wrote: > I was planning to move "home" to another partition as I plan to wipe > old installation (it is impossible for me to upgrade); it will be > easier to reinstall. My old installation is: Portage 2.3.24 (python > 3.5.4-final-0, default/linux/amd64/17.0/desktop, gcc-6.4.0, > glibc-2.25-r10, 4.9.72-gentoo x86_64) > > Since, old installation has home or "/" (root) partition, if I wipe the > root, home will be gone as well. So I was planning on moving "home" to > another partition, this way all data will be there.
Or you could simply delete everything but home from /, then install to that partition. While it is nice to have /home on a separate filesystem, and it's generally how I do things on a desktop, moving it is a lot of work just to reinstall. -- Neil Bothwick New Intel opcode #007 PUKE: Put unmeaningful keywords everywhere
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