Are you using the Custom (for experts) feature? This will allow you format / only and leave the other partitions untouched.
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From: Sorin Peste
To:
Sent: 3/27/2007 5:04:40 PM
Subject: [opensuse] Installing 10.2 but keeping my files
Hi,
After running with SUSE 10.1 for a while I've decided it's time to
upgrade to openSUSE 10.2. What I'd like to do is a fresh 10.2 install
while keeping all my /home files (they are on a separate partition). But
I can't seem to get the installer to leave that partition alone. My
80-gig hard disk is partitioned as follows:
sdb1: 1.5GB Linux swap
sdb2: 20GB Linux (reiserfs) /
sdb3: 53GB Linux (reiserfs) /home
The installer thinks I should make sdb3 an 'extended partition' and then
create two additional partitions (sdb4 and sdb5) on it, for housing /
and /home, respectively. If I try to alter this setup I can't make it
leave sdb3 as it is...
If I decide to request a partition scheme by using sdb2 and sdb3
allocated space, it then thinks I should delete (not just format) those
partitions and create identical new ones in their place! Even if I set
it up to not format sdb3, it still lists both partitions as being up for
deletion and re-creation.
I don't know what to do. I'd like to start fresh without losing my
files, if possible. Can I accomplish that without moving an awful lot of
files to another storage?
Thanks,
Sorin
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