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

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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.
> Wouldn't it be possible, for example, to boot the system up from a
> live CD, and reinstall the base system, leaving /home untouched?  (I
> should mention that the hard disk in question is just one big
> partition, including /home and everything else.)

Just do a normal install with manual filesystem configuration, choose the existing partition with the prior filesystem format and make sure to _not_ choose format partition. The installer will warn you, something along the lines that it will overwrite the old /usr, /etc/, /var, etc - which is what you want.

optionally you can remove all directories but /home (and may be /root prior to installation from a live system (the installer will do).

I strongly advise to make the backup before nonetheless - breaking things is easy, especially in the installer. This procedure will however spare you restoring thing from the backup, if it works.

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Is it possible to fully reinstall the base system without affecting /home? Kynn Jones <kynnjo@gmail.com> - 2016-02-22 05:40 +0100
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