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Installing Leap while preserving btrfs @home subvolume

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Installing Leap while preserving btrfs @home subvolume - Europe Pub

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!

Jun 15, 2025 at 3:29pmWeb
Show threadThyTTYJun 24, 2025
Yes, you just mount it as @home and deselect “format partition” option.
Show threadmceplJun 25, 2025
if you have it on a separate partition, it is more complicated if /home is just a BTRFS subvolume.
Show threadmceplJun 25, 2025
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.