It might be useful to describe my situation: It was late at night and I was very, very tired, recovering deleted photos using photorec. After it had finished, it made root-owned folders with lots of deleted photos, which I could not remove even using sudo. So, I went to “sudo su” and typed, out of …

In order to preserve /home, you will need to manually partition your new install. Choose existing /home, set mount point to /home, but DO NOT MARK to format it.

Reinstalling Fedora while keeping /home partition

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to create a list of installed packages that can easily be re-installed.

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Reinstalling Fedora while keeping /home partition

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