On Sat, Oct 29, 2022, at 12:54 AM, Slade Watkins via users wrote: > On 10/28/22 4:27 PM, Jake D wrote: >> I really can't believe that these Linux systems are so fragile and the ONLY >> option is to start over > > Wanted to hop in here real fast and say: > Pop!_OS, which is my primary distro (with Fedora being my secondary), > has the option to go into recovery (has a small partition just for > up-to-date recovery media) and reinstall your OS without losing any > personal files. > > AFAIK, it's one of the only distributions that has something like it.
Fedora doesn't have a recovery partition. But there is a (sort of hidden, or at least non-obvious) way of doing a custom installation while preserving home. There isn't detailed documentation for it. It's just a test case. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA:Testcase_partitioning_custom_btrfs_preserve_home This is more official than the draft dual boot one I posted previously, in that I try to keep this one up to date. But it's just a test case, intended for a test setup to make sure installer functionality isn't lost. It's not really intended as installation advise. It could be adapted into a Quick Doc for that purpose though. But my understanding of the original poster's issue is that he now has a bunch of system level customizations. Not so much user level customizations. Therefore the reuse home directory method wouldn't help much. -- Chris Murphy _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@lists.fedoraproject.org Do not reply to spam, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure/new_issue
