On Sun, 10 Jan 2021 17:31:05 -0700, thelma@sys-concept.com wrote:

> I was planning to move "home" to another partition as I plan to wipe
> old installation (it is impossible for me to upgrade); it will be
> easier to reinstall. My old installation is: Portage 2.3.24 (python
> 3.5.4-final-0, default/linux/amd64/17.0/desktop, gcc-6.4.0,
> glibc-2.25-r10, 4.9.72-gentoo x86_64)
> 
> Since, old installation has home or "/" (root) partition, if I wipe the
> root, home will be gone as well.  So I was planning on moving "home" to
> another partition, this way all data will be there.

Or you could simply delete everything but home from /, then install to
that partition. While it is nice to have /home on a separate filesystem,
and it's generally how I do things on a desktop, moving it is a lot of
work just to reinstall.


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