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I'm currently using Fedora 34 and want to install Fedora 35 while keeping around just my home folder. Currently I don't have a separate home partition, but I read online that it's easy to make one ...
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true_blue
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2021-10-24T22:49:09Z (about 3 years ago)
Remove swap partition. I actually don't have one, somehow.
I'm currently using Fedora 34 and want to install Fedora 35 while keeping around just my home folder. Currently I don't have a separate home partition, but I read online that it's easy to make one even after installation if your system is using LVM. After looking it up in Fedora's documentation, it looks like LVM is used with the default partitioning scheme, which is what I used when I installed Fedora. However when I checked my partitions using both Gnome Disks and the KDE partition manager. I didn't see any mention of LVM, just a `/boot`, `/`, and `swap` partition.- What I want to know is how I can separate `/home` into its own partition so that I can just reformat everything *but* that partition when I install Fedora 35. I tried using `vgdisplay` to see if I'm really even using LVM in the first place, but it outputs nothing when I use sudo, and errors when run as a normal user.
- I'm currently using Fedora 34 and want to install Fedora 35 while keeping around just my home folder. Currently I don't have a separate home partition, but I read online that it's easy to make one even after installation if your system is using LVM. After looking it up in Fedora's documentation, it looks like LVM is used with the default partitioning scheme, which is what I used when I installed Fedora. However when I checked my partitions using both Gnome Disks and the KDE partition manager. I didn't see any mention of LVM, just a `/boot` and `/` partition.
- What I want to know is how I can separate `/home` into its own partition so that I can just reformat everything *but* that partition when I install Fedora 35. I tried using `vgdisplay` to see if I'm really even using LVM in the first place, but it outputs nothing when I use sudo, and errors when run as a normal user.
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true_blue
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2021-10-22T17:31:34Z (about 3 years ago)
Remove irrelevant mention of Fedora 35 being a pre-release
I'm currently using Fedora 34 and want to install Fedora 35's beta while keeping around just my home folder. Currently I don't have a separate home partition, but I read online that it's easy to make one even after installation if your system is using LVM. After looking it up in Fedora's documentation, it looks like LVM is used with the default partitioning scheme, which is what I used when I installed Fedora. However when I checked my partitions using both Gnome Disks and the KDE partition manager. I didn't see any mention of LVM, just a `/boot`, `/`, and `swap` partition.What I want to know is how I can separate `/home` into its own partition so that I can just reformat everything *but* that partition when I install the Fedora 35 beta. I tried using `vgdisplay` to see if I'm really even using LVM in the first place, but it outputs nothing when I use sudo, and errors when run as a normal user.
- I'm currently using Fedora 34 and want to install Fedora 35 while keeping around just my home folder. Currently I don't have a separate home partition, but I read online that it's easy to make one even after installation if your system is using LVM. After looking it up in Fedora's documentation, it looks like LVM is used with the default partitioning scheme, which is what I used when I installed Fedora. However when I checked my partitions using both Gnome Disks and the KDE partition manager. I didn't see any mention of LVM, just a `/boot`, `/`, and `swap` partition.
- What I want to know is how I can separate `/home` into its own partition so that I can just reformat everything *but* that partition when I install Fedora 35. I tried using `vgdisplay` to see if I'm really even using LVM in the first place, but it outputs nothing when I use sudo, and errors when run as a normal user.
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true_blue
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2021-10-21T17:25:56Z (about 3 years ago)
How can you create a separate home partition using LVM?
I'm currently using Fedora 34 and want to install Fedora 35's beta while keeping around just my home folder. Currently I don't have a separate home partition, but I read online that it's easy to make one even after installation if your system is using LVM. After looking it up in Fedora's documentation, it looks like LVM is used with the default partitioning scheme, which is what I used when I installed Fedora. However when I checked my partitions using both Gnome Disks and the KDE partition manager. I didn't see any mention of LVM, just a `/boot`, `/`, and `swap` partition. What I want to know is how I can separate `/home` into its own partition so that I can just reformat everything *but* that partition when I install the Fedora 35 beta. I tried using `vgdisplay` to see if I'm really even using LVM in the first place, but it outputs nothing when I use sudo, and errors when run as a normal user.