Installing fresh copy using my home folder from Ubuntu

Hi there,
I've been using Ubuntu for the past 4 years or so and would like to give Fedora a try. I have a question - should I decide to ditch Ubuntu for Fedora I will want to install but keep my Home folder.
Normally whenever I've reinstalled Ubuntu I've installed over top of my existing installation. I have 3 partitions:
1 - Root
2 - Swap
3 - Home

When I reinstall I normally format root and swap but keep home and choose my usual user name. hen I boot up after install all my settings for all my apps are retained.


If I install Fedora this way (keeping Home while formatting Root and Swap) will I get the same results?

Many thanks

[dmyersturnbull]

Hey, vishnu.

Welcome to the forums

If I install Fedora this way (keeping Home while formatting Root and Swap) will I get the same results?

That should be fine. Anaconda will respect your home partition, and Gnome will read your settings.
Some software may be newer, so there might be inconsistencies in the configuration files. But chances are you won't notice anything.

Let us know how it goes!
—Douglas

[jflarm]

I just installed F11 from Ubuntu 9.04, and it was a HELL, I had to create a new user, move my files to the new user directories and delete my old user.

First I didn't have owner privileges in my own home directory, I did a "chown -R user:user /home/user" to get my privileges.

Also, the user had a UID of 500, and the Ubuntu UID was 1000. I did a "usermod -u 1000 user" to get make my Fedora 11 user have the UID 1000.

After many, many tries, I decided to create a new user and move the files to the new user respective directories.

mv /home/olduser/Documents/* /home/newuser/Documents/

And this for the other files....

If you find a way to do it in a safe way, please tell us about it.