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Switching from Manjaro to EndeavorOS, is there a way to preserve my home directory?
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this post was submitted on 11 Mar 2024
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If you're frequently distro-hopping, I recommend using a seperate
/homepartition. I did that before I settled down, I can't begin to describe how convenient it was (especially if you use Flatpak).To do this one could install the new distro on a new partition, boot to it, delete everything from the old installation except the hone directory, move your user to the base directory (/home/sorrybookbroke -> /sorrybookbroke) before editing your /etc/fstab and mounting the old partition to /home
This way, no external drive is needed like @[email protected] suggested. Of course, their suggestion is the easiest, but this is the one I personally chose.
this is so much more wlrk