[08:45] <lordievader> Good morning.
[08:49] <ubuntun00b> Hi all. I hosed my ubuntu installation. I'm trying to reinstall using the xenial daily image. I have to choose manual install with everything on one drive. I DONT want to delete my home folder. Do i have to set my partition mount point to '/' and NOT check the format box. is that all I have to do and ubuntu will reinstall and keep all my data?
[08:50] <lordievader> ubuntun00b: You rather want to create a seperate /home and sync all the data to there.
[08:53] <ubuntun00b> there is no option to do that. it wouldn't give me the option to upgrade my installation. i don't see that option anywhere. are you saying i should rename my /home partition first?
[08:53] <lordievader> The option is there, it is just more manual work ;)
[08:54] <lordievader> You resize your current root-fs, create a new /home, sync all the stuff. Then set the installer to format the root-fs and mount the /home to /home.
[08:56] <ubuntun00b> why resize the partition? isn't that more risky than just using the existing partition but just don't format anything?
[08:56] <jtaylor> lordievader: I think / needs to always be formatted
[08:56] <lordievader> jtaylor: No, but it is recommended to format /.
[08:57] <jtaylor> else installation would just overwrite stuff and leave other stuff leading to a likely broken installation
[08:57] <lordievader> ubuntun00b: You can, but the install can be unpredicatable.
[08:58] <jtaylor> I'd just do a backup and restore after installtion
[08:58] <lordievader> That is another way to go.
[08:59] <ubuntun00b> i don't have enough disk space to create 2 partitions. i'd have to backup to an external disk but it's ntfs. I'd lose all my file permissions. I'd like to avoid that if possible
[08:59] <jtaylor> ubuntun00b: backup in a tarball
[08:59] <jtaylor> also get another disk for backups then, you should not use computers without regular backups
[09:00] <jtaylor> especially when messing with dev releases :)
[09:01] <ubuntun00b> ok. I'll take a file backup and then a tar backup just to be safe. but back to my original question. once my backup is done. There's no way to install ubuntu without deleting the partition?
[09:02] <lordievader> ubuntun00b: Like we said, you can, but it ain't recommended.
[09:02] <jtaylor> deleting everything but home from a live-cd then installing might work (if it allows you to skip the formating step)
[09:03] <jtaylor> you can try, if you ahve backups worst that happens is you ahve to install twice when it doesn't work
[09:04] <ubuntun00b> do i have to choose a mount point or set no mount point or rename my /home folder? does nobody know for sure?
[09:12] <lordievader> I don't fully understand the question...
[10:53] <alex__> hello, I have an error while building unity. Is this the right place to ask? If not I'll not make a pastebin or similar report
[10:56] <ikonia> building ?
[11:06] <lordievader> Don't think many people in here actually build unity themselves.
[11:06] <elhoir> hello, does anyone know if Ubuntu 16.04 will bring LLVM 3.7 enabled? (i would want to have OpenGL 4.x support :P )
[12:00] <BluesKaj> Hey all
[20:10] <hggdh> meanwhile, software-updated insists in installing some packages that apt insists in stating are not in use and can be auto-removable...
[20:12] <BluesKaj> the software update gui is slow to see what apt sees
[20:12] <BluesKaj> in dkg
[20:13] <BluesKaj> dpkg rather
[20:18] <hggdh> yeah. So I apt-get autoremove, and the packages are gone. Later on I apt-get update and... lo and behold, s-u now wants to install the packages again. Rinse & repeat, ad nauseum
[20:18] <hggdh> fun
[20:19] <BluesKaj> is it a ppa
[20:20] <BluesKaj> also run autoclean
[21:00] <hggdh> BluesKaj: yes, seems autoremove did the trick. Sort of surprising.