Installing Leap while preserving btrfs @home subvolume

I’d like to install Leap 15.6 on an older laptop which is currently running Tumbleweed.

I have a single partition with btrfs and the standard subvolumes created during the original Tumbleweed installation.

Can I install Leap while preserving the btrfs @home subvolume? I played a bit the partitioner in expert mode but couldn’t find an obvious way.

Thanks!

6 points · 3 comments · view on lemmy.world

3 Comments

dabu@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 1y (1 reply)

Yes, you just mount it as @home and deselect "format partition" option.

mcepl@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 1y

if you have it on a separate partition, it is more complicated if /home is just a BTRFS subvolume.

mcepl@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 1y

Not just with Zypper, but if you have everything on BTRFS, I have managed to do so using btrfstools while still on MicroOS (which is where I came from) and with guidance of Gemini.