Re: How to clear linux partitions but leave home untouched?

Chris Lumens <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.linux.redhat.kickstart.general
Message-ID <[email protected]>
> I have a kickstart file that I use to image our systems over PXE.
> Currently, we use "clearpart --linux" at the top of the kickstart and
> then "autopart" to create the partitions.
> 
> Is there any combination of commands that is similar to this, but
> doesn't delete the "home" partition? I'd like to be able to re-install
> a new version of Fedora onto a system, but not delete the users' home
> directories.

clearpart does not allow anything that fine grained:

   https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Anaconda/Kickstart#clearpart

You'd have to clear things out yourself in a %pre script if you only
want to clear a subset of partitions.

- Chris
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