Installing Leap while preserving btrfs @home subvolume (europe.pub)

submitted 1 year ago by ceiron@europe.pub to c/opensuse@lemmy.world

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I’d like to install Leap 15.6 on an older laptop which is currently running Tumbleweed.

I have a single partition with btrfs and the standard subvolumes created during the original Tumbleweed installation.

Can I install Leap while preserving the btrfs @home subvolume? I played a bit the partitioner in expert mode but couldn’t find an obvious way.

Thanks!

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[-] dabu@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Yes, you just mount it as @home and deselect "format partition" option.

[-] mcepl@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

if you have it on a separate partition, it is more complicated if /home is just a BTRFS subvolume.

[-] mcepl@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Not just with Zypper, but if you have everything on BTRFS, I have managed to do so using btrfstools while still on MicroOS (which is where I came from) and with guidance of Gemini.

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