If you are installing via CD isos, then you will be given an opportunity to save your partitions of choice from re-formating. Just don't let the install program partition automatically. I've kept the same data in my home directory from Red Hat 7.2 through Fedora and onto CentOS and never had a problem.
I don't know about other methods of installation.
Dick
Shawn Brown wrote:
Hi,
how can I use my previous /home partion under a new installation of cent0S5?
Is it something like:
mount it chown it (so the UIDs match) fstab it (suggestions here pelase)
Was using fc6 that died in an update (I think XP under vm ware crashed) and segfaulted on reboot.
Wanted to go to centOS anyway so...
Um, the /home is a mirrored raid device across 2 disks. I can mount it fine.
Sorry if this seems so simple to find it on google. I searched around and thought I'd ask before going further thinking maybe someone has a howto or would suggest a reinstall of centOS5 with it pointed to the /home directory I'd like to use. Wasn't sure how to do that without reformatting is though.
I doubt this is relevant at this moment but the previous installation was i686 and the new on is x86_64
Thanks and happy to be finallying using centOS
Shawn
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