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From: Kynn Jones
To: Debian User
Subject: Is it possible to fully reinstall the base system without affecting
/home?
My system is badly damaged, and it looks like the only way to fix it
is to do a full re-install.
I figure I will have to back everything up to an external drive,
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Kynn Jones:
>
> But I thought I'd ask if there's anything close to this that would not
> require backing up everything and reformatting the hard disk.
If there is anything on your hard disk worth keeping that you haven't
backed up at least weekly then you should start worrying about that now.
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On Mon, Feb 22, 2016 at 11:20:24AM +0100, arian wrote:
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> Just to make sure, your filesystem is OK, right?
>
> > But I thought I'd ask if there's anything close to this that would not
> > require backing up everything and reformatting the hard disk.
On 22/02/16 20:10, Dalios wrote:
First of all you would have to move your /home to a new partition (to
the same disk or another) and you would need to start from a Live CD/USB
in order to do this step.
Or move /home from a terminal as root. But if you have to create a new
partition you might
Just to make sure, your filesystem is OK, right?
> But I thought I'd ask if there's anything close to this that would not
> require backing up everything and reformatting the hard disk.
> Wouldn't it be possible, for example, to boot the system up from a
> live CD, and reinstall the base system,
On 02/22/2016 06:36 AM, Kynn Jones wrote:
> My system is badly damaged, and it looks like the only way to fix it
> is to do a full re-install.
>
> I figure I will have to back everything up to an external drive,
> reformat the hard drive, and install everything from scratch.
>
> But I thought I'd
My system is badly damaged, and it looks like the only way to fix it
is to do a full re-install.
I figure I will have to back everything up to an external drive,
reformat the hard drive, and install everything from scratch.
But I thought I'd ask if there's anything close to this that would not
re
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