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This was I can wipe the drive it's on and install a new OS without losing anything in /home/

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[–] Rustmilian@lemmy.world 0 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (2 children)

In what way? Like a home partition?
Home should just be a folder you can copy over in most cases.
If it's a separate partition, most distros can just install to the other partitions without overwriting the home partition.

[–] eleitl@lemmy.ml 0 points 10 months ago (1 children)

SELinux rights can be a problem.

[–] h3ndrik@feddit.de 0 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

cp -a --preserve=all will help.

I don't have any SELinux permissions set in my home directory. Don't know why I'd want that on a workstation.