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beardedragon

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From: Madison, WI USA

Registered: 2015-08-04

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re-install recovered everything? [Solved]

After a major crash, could not startup Arch.  I installed it again and recovered all of my home, applications and everything works.  Is this common?  Using UEFI. Arch 2019.06.01

Last edited by beardedragon (2019-07-11 14:23:37)

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Re: re-install recovered everything? [Solved]

Is this common?

No.

Feel free to mark the thread as SOLVED.

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ewaller

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Re: re-install recovered everything? [Solved]

My guess would be that you sis not reformat your home directory.  If you have only one user, they were probably assigned the (coincidentally)  the correct UID. 
You would have lost everything in /srv, and things would be back to defaults in /etc.

Not an installation issue.  Moving to Newbie Forum.

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beardedragon

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From: Madison, WI USA

Registered: 2015-08-04

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Re: re-install recovered everything? [Solved]

Correct, no reformat, just used existing partitions.  Thanks for the reply.

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