Do you mean: You currently have a separate partition mounted as /home and want to reuse this when installing a new distro?
Yes, there is a way to avoid creating a new one:
In the gui or tui installer, choose manual partitioning
If they don’t exist yet, create the partitions you want to use.
Specify their file system (ext4 or whatever you prefer), mount point or use, e.g. /, /home, swap.
!!! Be careful !!!
!!! For the /home partition make sure to uncheckrecreate file system, format or alike. !!!
This is the partition currently filled with your data!
Look up how to have /home on a seperate partition, it lets you keep your user files when distro-hopping
Is there a way to avoid creating a new one, or do you just replace the new one in /etc/fstab?
Do you mean: You currently have a separate partition mounted as
/homeand want to reuse this when installing a new distro?Yes, there is a way to avoid creating a new one:
/,/home,swap.!!! Be careful !!!
!!! For the
/homepartition make sure to uncheck recreate file system, format or alike. !!!This is the partition currently filled with your data!