I had a dual boot I rarely used because reasons, one of them being that it was Manjaro and it kinda sort of borked itself and evey time I upgraded it asked me to make choices I had no idea what they meant.

I wanted to give Pop_OS a try so I went and nuked the Manjaro and set up the boot, root and swap of Pop_OS in its place.

Point is, I had the /home of Manjaro on a different location (The OS is on a SSD shared with windows and I put /home on a HD). I did not point Pop_OS to it at setup for fear of it being nuked (Will it nuke it? If not I guess I can do a new install and point it there?)

Can I link Pop_OS home to the old Manjaro home or do I need to take care of something (format it, remove some specific folder…).

I ask because I convinced myself the matter was trivial, but in the process of making sure the /home of Pop_OS was empty I ended up with a system hang and my passwords (both user AND root) being rejected and I had to reinstall the whole thing, so maybe there’s more to /home than just a bunch of data?

Thanks!

  • INeedMana@lemmy.world
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    2 years ago

    Mount your home somewhere else for a moment (/mnt/tmp for example).
    Review dotfiles in Pop_OS home (ls -a $HOME) and copy what you want to keep/don’t recognize into /mnt/tmp
    Delete everything in Pop_OS home to save space (or not, it should not be very big)
    Edit /etc/fstab to mount your Manjaro home under /home
    Reboot