| lordievader | Good morning. | 08:45 |
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| 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? | 08:49 |
| lordievader | ubuntun00b: You rather want to create a seperate /home and sync all the data to there. | 08:50 |
| 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 ;) | 08:53 |
| 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. | 08:54 |
| 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 /. | 08:56 |
| 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. | 08:57 |
| jtaylor | I'd just do a backup and restore after installtion | 08:58 |
| lordievader | That is another way to go. | 08:58 |
| 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 | 08:59 |
| jtaylor | especially when messing with dev releases :) | 09:00 |
| 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? | 09:01 |
| 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) | 09:02 |
| jtaylor | you can try, if you ahve backups worst that happens is you ahve to install twice when it doesn't work | 09:03 |
| ubuntun00b | do i have to choose a mount point or set no mount point or rename my /home folder? does nobody know for sure? | 09:04 |
| lordievader | I don't fully understand the question... | 09:12 |
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| 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 | 10:53 |
| ikonia | building ? | 10:56 |
| 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 ) | 11:06 |
| BluesKaj | Hey all | 12:00 |
| hggdh | meanwhile, software-updated insists in installing some packages that apt insists in stating are not in use and can be auto-removable... | 20:10 |
| BluesKaj | the software update gui is slow to see what apt sees | 20:12 |
| BluesKaj | in dkg | 20:12 |
| BluesKaj | dpkg rather | 20:13 |
| 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 | 20:18 |
| BluesKaj | is it a ppa | 20:19 |
| BluesKaj | also run autoclean | 20:20 |
| hggdh | BluesKaj: yes, seems autoremove did the trick. Sort of surprising. | 21:00 |
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