Oh Sweet I never knew that! Thanks! 2009/12/17 Alan Pope [email protected]
> > Here's a tip for you though. Even if you don't have /home on a separate > partition, you can still reinstall (upgrade) and not lose any data from > /home. > > If you reinstall over the top of an existing install, and during the > partitioning step of the live cd installer choose _manual_ partitioning > _and_ _unselect_ the 'format' tickbox, magic happens. The installer will > recursively delete all of the folders in / except /home. So that's /bin > /usr > /var /etc and so on. That all gets deleted and the new system gets > installed, leaving /home alone. > > Magic. > > Cheers, > Al. > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) > > iD8DBQFLKlL6HjjdYlekNjwRAsCSAKCQuLdOwm+t4yroh9fT0U1Hkn5tegCfcTNt > b9yifLAZd5JSIVROzKHil8M= > =BS+F > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > > _______________________________________________ > Peterboro mailing list > [email protected] > https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/peterboro >
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