On Mon, Sep 20, 2021 at 3:44 AM GianPiero Puccioni
<gianpiero.puccioni(a)isc.cnr.it> wrote:
After every possible thing I could think of , I removed all KDE and
reinstalled
it, no joy, exactly the same. Time to reinstall F34, and this is when I
discovered that it is nearly impossible to reinstall F34 on a btrfs system
without reformatting /home too (!?)
It is possible, it's just a bit non-obvious how to do it. This test
case explains how to to it step by step. You already have a Btrfs
installation, so Setup steps 1 and 2 are done. You can go to the how
to test steps. The critical steps are 9 and 10. In particular 10 is
not obvious that it's creating a new subvolume for '/' and that's why
the Btrfs file system isn't reformatted, and hence the existing home
subvolume is retained, and just assigned to /home in the new
installation.
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA:Testcase_partitioning_custom_btrfs_pres...
And yeah we need a better way to document this than a test case.
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Chris Murphy