viral thicket
I want to install Arch on top of Ubuntu without losing /home directory, I don't have a separate partition for /home everything is on the / partition
this is my hdd partition tree
/dev/sda
/dev/sda1 250GB Ubuntu (that's where I want to install the new Arch system)
/dev/sda2 50GB Arch (existing)
What's your suggestion?
mental cove
I want to install Arch on top of Ubuntu without losing `/home` directory, I don'...
zip your /home and move it to a pen drive
then install arch
and then delete /home and replace it with the zip
unzip it
👌
viral thicket
zip your /home and move it to a pen drive
I don't have a pen drive of that size (250GB)
mental cove
holy 250GB
I have like 2gb
ok so
create a new partition in the disk
and store it
if you don't have 250GB free space, you can't do it easily
viral thicket
What I'm asking is, there is an option in the archinstall script to choose not to format the partition in which we are installing arch so it will create all the other directories like /root /bin /etc /usr etc. but won't override the /home directory because it already exists and my question is that is that option reliable? What if it formats the partition anyway
mental cove
I've never used archinstall, sorry, good luck