dale-cdl It's definitely possible, just annoying to do. You would need to shrink the existing root partition to make space, create a new LVM partition, create a volume group for the root partition to go in, create the LV for root, format the LV to ext4, copy all of your data over, fix /etc/fstab to have the new UUIDs and entry for /
, remove the old partition, boot into a Live ISO, resize the LVM partition, grow the VG, extend the LV, extend the ext4 partition, and probably a few other steps I'm forgetting.
Versus: Backup /home/<username>
to a different drive, reinstall over the whole disk, Restore /home/<username>
from the backup, and maybe have to chown -R <username>/<username> /home/<username>
to fix permissions if your UID/GID changed.