Salutations!
I’ve been running Manjaro on my T495 without a hitch for a long time, now. With all the chatter about Manjaro possibly not being maintained, I wanted to explore jumping to a different distro like CachyOS. The problem is, when I installed Manjaro on a BTRFS filesystem, I didn’t make a separate /home partition. Is there a way to migrate to CachyOS without deleting /home?
I realize BTRFS uses subvolumes instead of “real” partitions, but I’m not sure how to proceed. In my initial searches, there is a process to rename the subvolumes to something else, install CachyOS, then use rsync to restore my files, but I don’t know WHERE to do this. In the LiveUSB environment? During the installer? (See post Here)
Or am I better off just using rsync to backup the whole /home folder to an external drive, install CachyOS fresh, then rsync my files over when the installer is completed but before I boot for the first time?
Apologies if this is some basic stuff, I just don’t want to lose any data, especially my Docker containers and pictures.
I would choose the rsync–>backup /home to external disk then install Cachy fresh, then copy /home back.
It’s a known, clean and simple process. Why complicate things further?
yup, but careful with hidden folder like .config and a few others
Will rsync not grab those?
Edit: I am saying rsync should grab all that by default.
Yes but switching distro you can fuck up some settings… Better to copy documents downloads etc but all the hidden directories I do it selectively
Gotcha. I suppose I would grab everything and then selectively restore what I need. Having the backup also allows one to paw through it for settings or whatever you might’ve forgotten.