Can bazzite be installed while maintaining an existing /home partition?
In my particular case, I hop distros fairly frequently and as such have a dedicated ext4 partition mounted at /home. I have no problem nuking ~/.config, .var, and .cache, but I need to maintain .local (or at leastmost of .local/share) and my documents.
If this is possible, how can it be done safely?
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You should be able to just create a brfs partition with just / and /var and then set the mount point /var/home to the existing ext4 partition. As long as you not switching DEs you shouldn't have any problems. I'd back up the home partition just in case though.
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You should be able to just create a brfs partition with just / and /var and then set the mount point /var/home to the existing ext4 partition. As long as you not switching DEs you shouldn't have any problems. I'd back up the home partition just in case though.
this system has previously switched DEs (from Gnome to Plasma) but is now on Plasma. I can probably clear out most of the remainder with .config and .var anyways.
Thanks!
Sometimes also worth clearing out .cache else you end up with all sorts of weird things happening. If you comfortable clearing out the .config files then you should be fine. Good luck 🙂
rm -rf ~/.{var,config,cache} it is.
actually I should probably leave var alone, the only stuff in there is flatpak data.