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