2014-03-16 23:30 GMT+01:00 message :

On 2014-03-16 21:58, arch-general-request@archlinux.org wrote:

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Message: 6 Date: Sun, 16 Mar 2014 22:58:03 +0100 From: Karol Blazewicz Subject: Re: [arch-general] installation using existing filesystem

Have you read https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Beginners%27_guide# Mount_the_partitions ?

No, thanks (am reading the installation guide first! :) ). Now revealed the local disk structure:

sda1 vfat, sda2 vfat, sda3 [blank], sda4 swap, sda5 ext4, sda6 ext4

No mountpoints are shown. What tool is available to determine if sda5 is the /home directory of the previous (mandriva) installation? I want to perform a base installation, leaving the /home directory un-touched.

You can mount them and look at the contents

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According to message: # No mountpoints are shown. What tool is available to determine if sda5 is # the /home directory of the previous (mandriva) installation? I want to # perform a base installation, leaving the /home directory un-touched. If you are using the live iso, nothing is mounted by default. Your best bet in that case is to mount sda5 and sda6 in turn and list the contents of each filesystem. Most likely, sda6 is your previous /home, so you can try mounting sda5 first. If you get what looks to be the top level / directory of a Linux filesystem, you can unmount it, overwrite the filesystem, remount it in /mnt to keep things as simple as possible, make a home directory inside of the mount point and then mount sda6 in /mnt/home, assuming you initially mounted sda5 in /mnt. Hope this helps. ~Kyle http://kyle.tk/ -- "Kyle? ... She calls her cake, Kyle?" Out of This World, season 2 episode 21 - "The Amazing Evie"

Why is it necessary to make a new /home directory within the root system, when a separate /home partition already exists? -- digest-mode subscriber; please cc to maintain message thread