On Thu, Dec 27, 2012 at 07:24:34AM -0500, Nick Holland wrote: > > As for your question... > > Before reinstalling, make note of where all your partitions are mounted > currently. > > For a reinstall, the fdisk prompt will include "Existing OpenBSD > partition" or something along those lines...you will chose that (the > default). > > After that, you will be brought to the disklabel options -- you want to > chose CUSTOM Layout. Define a mount point for all partitions you wish > to reformat, do NOT define mount points for the /home partition or any > others you wish to retain. You aren't marking "don't reformat" > partitions, you need to mark where all partitions will be mounted, > leaving out the ones you wish to retain. > > After you complete your install, edit your /etc/fstab to point to your > old /home partition, mount it (I'd suggest a reboot), done. > > btw: you will want to practice this locally on a "test" system first. > > Nick. >
Once I had a problem with disklabel wanting to write a slightly modified version. Make sure you write down all of the exact disklabel numbers beforehand. Or you could lose /home partition. This is easy to fix beforehand. How often do these disklabel problems come up? I only saw that once, quite a while back. Other than that time, never a problem. Chris Bennett
