Re: Is it possible to fully reinstall the base system without affecting /home?

2016-02-22 Thread John L. Ries
From: Kynn Jones <kyn...@gmail.com> To: Debian User <debian-user@lists.debian.org> 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

Re: Is it possible to fully reinstall the base system without affecting /home?

2016-02-22 Thread Jochen Spieker
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.

Re: Is it possible to fully reinstall the base system without affecting /home?

2016-02-22 Thread tomas
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Mon, Feb 22, 2016 at 11:20:24AM +0100, arian wrote: > > 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

Re: Is it possible to fully reinstall the base system without affecting /home?

2016-02-22 Thread Keith Bainbridge
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

Re: Is it possible to fully reinstall the base system without affecting /home?

2016-02-22 Thread arian
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,

Re: Is it possible to fully reinstall the base system without affecting /home?

2016-02-22 Thread Dalios
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

Is it possible to fully reinstall the base system without affecting /home?

2016-02-21 Thread Kynn Jones
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