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.

  • OwOarchist@pawb.socialEnglish
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    12 hours ago

    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?

    That would be simpler.

    Or, even just do it after the first boot in the new system. It shouldn’t hurt anything to replace the contents of your /home directory. Just copy it over and then reboot. (Save a copy of the original somewhere as a backup, just in case it breaks something.)