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How does one simplify distro hopping? Do you have a workflow to make it easier to set everything up?
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Look up how to have /home on a seperate partition, it lets you keep your user files when distro-hopping
Is there a way to avoid creating a new one, or do you just replace the new one in /etc/fstab?
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Do you mean: You currently have a separate partition mounted as /home and want to reuse this when installing a new distro?
Yes, there is a way to avoid creating a new one:
- In the gui or tui installer, choose manual partitioning
- If they don’t exist yet, create the partitions you want to use.
- Specify their file system (ext4 or whatever you prefer), mount point or use, e.g.
/,/home,swap.
!!! Be careful !!!
!!! For the /home partition make sure to uncheck recreate file system, format or alike. !!!
This is the partition currently filled with your data!
- apply changes and procede installation.
