it has more than home, did I do it wrong? The root folder is empty, How big should I make the partitions, all I need is /, Home, boot/efi & Swap? Last time I installed Manjaro, couldn’t figure out what it wanted, it didn’t ever accept how we did it. I just have VLC, Furefox & Vocoscreen really. . How can I use pacman xg to make a list of packages I have?
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That is what I did. Hmmm, they look like duplicates when I go to summery on both. I have touched settings since I installed Manjao. Oh well delete it & redo, if I add /usr that will also get my apps right?
This is the way to go.
You wanted to reinstall and just restore $HOME as I understood it.
Install your apps from this list after the system was reinstalled.
You can also just copy the whole system from one drive to the other.
No re-installation necessary - but still some work to have it booting properly.
So in timesihft just add a new option to setting that
has the pattern /home/edward78 not sure why the one with ** get so much. Hmmm, I am doing something wrong, how do I make it back up /home & all files =/folders below it? Plus if I cloned the instll & it was hooked up to the same Sata cale after that, would I still need to edit files to get it to boot right? Sorry about all this back & forth.
Timeshift is for system backups - your pattern already included $HOME - along with all the rest of the system.
If you want just $HOME and nothing else then create a new pattern.
… you’d need to do some work no matter how you copied or cloned your system.
You already have a backup - and will lose nothing if you screw up.
Just go ahead and try and learn from possible mistakes.
No one said it wouldn’t - just that some additional work might be needed, depending on HOW you did it.
In that case you will face problems - a clone means that now you have two identical drives (as far as the kernel is concerned). Nothing good can come from that.
Tip: Right before you clone the drive with true cloning software. Do a Timeshift backup to a portable USB drive, even a thumb drive works. Why? The odds are the drive will not be usable for a number of reasons. Not to worry.
With the newly cloned drive now do a Timeshift restore to that drive.