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The title says it all, I'd like to switch my operating system and preserve most of my files. Any other info I should know before the move would be nice as well.

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 7 months ago

this is so much more wlrk