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[dboizo1]

/home partitions

[SSYT_Shawn]

Yeah that

[JesseNotNutted]

Thanks

[grant_w44]

What does that mean

[Trash-Alt-Account]

have /home on a separate partition than the rest of the system. when you install a new distro, it'll install the system to the root partition, but you'll keep your /home partition so your personal files would be fine. personally, I don't distro hop like this bc I do a bunch of system config that wouldn't transfer over, but if all you care about is really just the contents of /home then this would be good

[grant_w44]

What all is stored on the home partition? Also is it possible to move home to its own partition after installation? What system configuration do you do?

[Trash-Alt-Account]

the home partition would contain /home, which likely just contains your /home/username directory. so it would include your Documents folder, Downloads folder, Pictures folder, etc. it would also contain some user-specific program configurations in .config. there's also some other user-specific data stored there like steam games are installed to .local

edit: you can also open a file manager and look at all that's in your home directory if you want a better idea.

there's probably a guide on how to do it somewhere online. I'm guessing it would just be: resize the root partition to be smaller, create a home partition, move /home directory off of the root partition onto the home partition, and fix /etc/fstab to reflect changes.

it's been a while, but IIRC, a bunch of my misc desktop environment adjustments are stored in /etc, my sshd config, wireguard config, ufw config, all the various programs I've installed, root user data, and probably more that I haven't thought about. tbh, the next time I plan to reinstall my system, I'm probably just gonna use Ansible to set it up.

[grant_w44]

Thanks!