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Re: [partman] How to keep data in existing partitions



On Sat, Jan 14, 2006 at 02:59:36PM +0100, Free Ekanayaka wrote:
> 
> Here you can also  create a recipe including not  only / and swap, but
> also  /home with *keep* method, so  that you  can avoid creating files
> use_filesystem, filesystem etc. afterwards.

This is simpler but that way partman-auto is not going to reuse an
already existing /home partition.  Instead it creates a new partition,
it doesn't format it and crosses fingers in hope that the new
partition has absolutely the same location as the old /home partition.

Anton Zinoviev



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