Re: Trying to understand how to preserve home with a legacy BIOS dual-boot Windows/Fedora install using WebUI

On Sun, Apr 6, 2025 at 8:54 PM Scott Dowdle via test
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> On Sunday, April 6th, 2025 at 3:20 PM, Andre Robatino <[email protected]> wrote:
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> > OK, after watching the "Mount point assignment" video at https://fedoramagazine.org/anaconda-installer-redesign/ I have a better idea of what's going on. So here's what I think I'm supposed to do. I used "Add mount point" to add a third row /home. After this, I have 3 mount points (/, /boot, and /home, in that order). Under the "Device" column, I set these to "root", "sda3", and "home", resp. And in the "Reformat" column, the first two are toggled on and the third is toggled off.
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> > Then after going to "Review and install", I get an error "Unknown or invalid device 'BTRFS-blahblah-blah-blah-blah-blahblahblah-root/var/lib/machines' specified" (the blahs are hex digits). I thought I had it. And was I correct in choosing "Mount point assignment" instead of "Share disk with other operating system"?
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> If /home isn't a separate partition, you likely can't preserve it.  Back it up and restore post install.
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If /home is on btrfs, it's generally a separate subvolume, and it can
be preserved. That was a big part of *why* the Btrfs layout is the way
it is. However, Anaconda seems to be choking on subvolumes created by
systemd-nspawn, which is kind of surprising.



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