Hi Hakan, easiest method would be to have your /home on a separate drive if possible... that way when you run the installer your "OS Disk" can be blown away by the auto partitioning and then you can manually update the /etc/fstab to mount /home to the home partition on your "Own UserDisk"
this I think is the most foolproof (tom proof anyway ) way of doing it ... the partition method / offsets may change from version to version (in my humble experience) it may be because the different disk manufacturers. that said the OpenBSD Installers / upgrade tools are designed to be straightforward, not to be too complex for instance if you dont install a given install set eg xbase.tgz at install time, you can simply download it and extract the tgz file in / and it will install the set just like the installer would. If you love your data and you are unfamiliar with OpenBSDs partitions and installers I would not be reinstalling the OS over existing partitions without a backup. the upgrade tools bsd.rd / sysupgrade or the latest install.iso or install.img are pretty reliable when it comes to upgrades. (even when I dont use the standard partition layouts) I hope this helps Tom Smyth On Tue, 20 Oct 2020 at 00:14, Hakan E. Duran <[email protected]> wrote: > > Dear all, > > Having been a linux user for quite a while, I am used to doing a fresh > install every few years, following a few upgrades. I usually set a separate > partition for the /home directory to be able to inherit my settings to the > fresh installation. This is the first time I did an upgrade in OpenBSD from > 6.7 to 6.8, which actually went flawless, but being a skeptical linux user, I > am wondering how I can do a fresh install if need be, by preserving my user > directory. I chose the auto-partitioning during the installation of OpenBSD > 6.7 but I don't know if that would be possible in a scenario like this, since > I am not sure if the installation algorithm would recognize the /home > directory or not. Your guidance will be greatly appreciated. > > Hakan > -- Kindest regards, Tom Smyth.
