[08:45] Good morning. [08:49] 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] ubuntun00b: You rather want to create a seperate /home and sync all the data to there. [08:53] 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] The option is there, it is just more manual work ;) [08:54] 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] why resize the partition? isn't that more risky than just using the existing partition but just don't format anything? [08:56] lordievader: I think / needs to always be formatted [08:56] jtaylor: No, but it is recommended to format /. [08:57] else installation would just overwrite stuff and leave other stuff leading to a likely broken installation [08:57] ubuntun00b: You can, but the install can be unpredicatable. [08:58] I'd just do a backup and restore after installtion [08:58] That is another way to go. [08:59] 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] ubuntun00b: backup in a tarball [08:59] also get another disk for backups then, you should not use computers without regular backups [09:00] especially when messing with dev releases :) [09:01] 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] ubuntun00b: Like we said, you can, but it ain't recommended. [09:02] deleting everything but home from a live-cd then installing might work (if it allows you to skip the formating step) [09:03] you can try, if you ahve backups worst that happens is you ahve to install twice when it doesn't work [09:04] 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] I don't fully understand the question... === hasselmm1 is now known as hasselmm [10:53] 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] building ? [11:06] Don't think many people in here actually build unity themselves. [11:06] 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] Hey all [20:10] meanwhile, software-updated insists in installing some packages that apt insists in stating are not in use and can be auto-removable... [20:12] the software update gui is slow to see what apt sees [20:12] in dkg [20:13] dpkg rather [20:18] 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] fun [20:19] is it a ppa [20:20] also run autoclean [21:00] BluesKaj: yes, seems autoremove did the trick. Sort of surprising.