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Re:Arch Linux – Do it yourself by FreeFull on Tuesday April 07, 2015 @08:10AM (#9333357)
I have managed to switch from a different distro to Arch without losing my /home by deleting everything other than /home. I imagine it would be tougher if the distro I switched to wasn't Arch.
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Re:Arch Linux – Do it yourself by thrownaway122 on Tuesday April 07, 2015 @09:50AM (#9333967)
Some time ago I messed around and somehow managed to break my Ubuntu system so that it wouldn't boot. Instead of bothering to work out how to fix it I just re-installed (with a different version number) and kept my old /home partition. It all worked out of the box.
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Re:Arch Linux – Do it yourself by FreeFull on Wednesday April 08, 2015 @09:18AM (#9340521)
Yeah, what I meant was that I had my /home on / rather than on a separate partition, and managed to install a completely different linux distro anyway without losing it.
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Re:Arch Linux – Do it yourself by thrownaway122 on Thursday April 09, 2015 @12:19PM (#9348678)
OK I misunderstood.
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