[solved] re-install, have /home on seperate partition

[whiteghost]

hello,
i need to reinstall. i accidently formatted / partition.

home is on its own partition. how do i go about the reinstall using my old home?

i have made a backup of /home with fsarchiver, not sure if i need it. leave /home as is, or reformat and restore /home after install?

do i need to add myself as user again?

[d2_racing]

Hi, when you will reinstall your box, just make sure that you mount your /home directory when you chroot your box the first time and then later edit your /etc/fstab to automatically mount your /home partition.

That's it

[psutokth]

Hi, when you reinstall, just skip the step where you format the home partition. You'll tell Gentoo where it is in /etc/fstab and you won't miss a thing when you get the system up and running again - a huge benefit of having /home on its own partition!

Happy installing!

[d2_racing]

In fact and a separate /boot too

[whiteghost]

o.k.
thanks guys.

[whiteghost]

[d2_racing]