Preserving home partition on install?

[Stuart Sears]

Mr.John wrote:
> Hello,
> I am currently running fedora, but want to reinstall from a live
> image. I have /home set up as a second ext3 partition. My question is
> will I be able to install fresh into / and keep my data on /home? I
> would like to continue using my user directory after the update if
> that is possible. Are there any important considerations, like not
> re-using the previous user name? I just don't want to find out too
> late that the installer blanks /home!

If you choose the 'create custom layout' option in the partitioning tool 
and you know which partition was your /home, then you should be able to 
preserve this across reboots. is /home on LVM or is it a normal disk 
partition?

Regards,

Stuart
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