I have an older laptop with windows 7 & LM Cinnamon 18.3. I wanted a fresh install of XFCE 19 to replace cinnamon 18.3. In the installation I chose "Something else". I selected the ext4 partition where Cinnamon was and made it the mount point. I did not select to reformat as the partition was already ext4. I got a message warning me data in the partition would be lost. Installation went ok and everything works, but my home directory is still there. Some saves me time of reinstalling many things, but after a number of years since a fresh install I needed to declutter. Was my mistake not to reformat the ext4 partition?
Disk /dev/sda: 465.8 GiB, 500107862016 bytes, 976773168 sectors
Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disklabel type: dos
Disk identifier: 0xf4aea3a7
Device Boot Start End Sectors Size Id Type
/dev/sda1 * 2048 409599 407552 199M 7 HPFS/NTFS/exFAT
/dev/sda2 409600 608096255 607686656 289.8G 7 HPFS/NTFS/exFAT
/dev/sda3 946018304 976769023 30750720 14.7G 7 HPFS/NTFS/exFAT
/dev/sda4 608098302 946018303 337920002 161.1G 5 Extended
/dev/sda5 608098304 938043391 329945088 157.3G 83 Linux
/dev/sda6 938045440 946018303 7972864 3.8G 82 Linux swap / Solaris
Partition table entries are not in disk order.
SOLVED fresh install of XFCE 19 did not replace Home directory
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SOLVED fresh install of XFCE 19 did not replace Home directory
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LM Cinnamon 19, ASUS TUF B450M, Ryzen 5 2600x, 16gb memory, Samsung SSD 970 EVO-Plus 500gb, Samsung SSD 850 Pro 256gb, dual 27" monitors, MSI GEFORCE GTX 1050ti Areo ITX. Big user of Gramps, LibreOffice, Unison.
Re: fresh install of XFCE 19 did not replace Home directory
From what I know, yes. If you wanted a new
If you don't choose format, the contents of the
/home partition, you'd have to choose Format.If you don't choose format, the contents of the
/home partition remains the same and the newly-installed OS assigns the /home partition for itself.Re: SOLVED fresh install of XFCE 19 did not replace Home directory
I reinstalled XFCE formatting the ext4 partition that existed. A couple of problems with the original install, with Grub and wifi disappeared. It would seem not formatting the ext4 partition that lm 18.3 had been on left me without a fresh install yet not an upgrade either. Not sure if there is any valid reason not to format every time. In the past I would have taken the first option and would not have seen this condition.
LM Cinnamon 19, ASUS TUF B450M, Ryzen 5 2600x, 16gb memory, Samsung SSD 970 EVO-Plus 500gb, Samsung SSD 850 Pro 256gb, dual 27" monitors, MSI GEFORCE GTX 1050ti Areo ITX. Big user of Gramps, LibreOffice, Unison.
Re: SOLVED fresh install of XFCE 19 did not replace Home directory
I had a similar problem, though slightly different.
Thinking that I could use the original files on the
That did not turn out well.
When I have to upgrade with a fresh install on our desktop from 18.3 Cinnamon to 19 Cinnamon, I'm going to try what you did to see how it turns out.
Thinking that I could use the original files on the
/home partition from 18.3 Cinnamon and then overwrite the 18.3 / partition with a fresh install of 19 Xfce.That did not turn out well.
When I have to upgrade with a fresh install on our desktop from 18.3 Cinnamon to 19 Cinnamon, I'm going to try what you did to see how it turns out.