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#1 2026-10-14 14:17:15
- lobotomiteqt5
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can i reinstall without formatting the disk?
can i just rm -rf the existing installation and do the usual installation stuff that comes after partitioning? i want to do this to keep my @home subvolume because its too big for me to backup on a different disk
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#2 2026-10-14 14:22:59
- seth
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Re: can i reinstall without formatting the disk?
Theoretically, but https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XY_problem
Why do you think you want to re-install anything (when not changing hardware or partition layout)?
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#3 2026-10-14 14:40:55
- lobotomiteqt5
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Re: can i reinstall without formatting the disk?
changed hardware, everything except the ssd
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#4 2026-10-14 15:13:02
- Trilby
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Re: can i reinstall without formatting the disk?
So? There aren't different versions of packages for different hardware. Just rebuild your initramfs.
"UNIX is simple and coherent" - Dennis Ritchie; "GNU's Not Unix" - Richard Stallman
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