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Switching from Manjaro to EndeavorOS, is there a way to preserve my home directory? (lemmy.blahaj.zone)
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The title says it all, I'd like to switch my operating system and preserve most of my files. Any other info I should know before the move would be nice as well.

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[–] scratchandgame@lemmy.ml 4 points 8 months ago (1 children)

WHY THERE ARE NOT.

Please have a partition for /home. In fact, you need partition for /usr, /var,.. too

[–] electric_nan@lemmy.ml 1 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Why? Serious question. I kind of understand /home, but why the others? I used to do it a bit, but now I don't bother. I never knew how big to make each partition, and have had problems where something like /boot fills up and freezes the system.