[plug] [PLUG] Quick, and (hopefully) simple question.

[Chris Hoy Poy]

Should be safe enough, apart from a wrong click somewhere telling it to reformat that partition (it won't by default). 

"should" is the operative word though ;) 


----- Original Message -----
From: "Lee Jamieson" <leejam at gmail.com>
To: plug at plug.org.au
Sent: Friday, 24 June, 2011 1:28:57 PM
Subject: Re: [plug] [PLUG] Quick, and (hopefully) simple question.

Heh.

I'm not using LVM ( I think) and there's not really anything mission
critical, so I might go ahead and see what happens. Seeing as Linux
mint is based on Ubuntu, there shouldn't be too many issues ( Ha!
famous last words :) ).

On 24 June 2011 13:22, Chris Hoy Poy <chris at hoypoy.id.au> wrote:
> in my experience, yes, apart from dumb stuff like:
>
>     - distro specific configurations for some applications
>     - applications that don't handle version jumps very well
>
> YMMV of course.
>
> If you used LVM, snapshot your original data before hand (you left
> space right?) ;)
>
> //chris
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> To: "[plug]" <plug at plug.org.au>
> Sent: Friday, 24 June, 2011 1:17:30 PM
> Subject: [plug] [PLUG] Quick, and (hopefully) simple question.
>
> Hi all. I'm wanting to go back to Ubuntu after using Linux Mint for a
> few months. I have /home on a separate partition, so can I get away
> without formatting /home but installing ubuntu onto / ? Will that keep
> (most of) my settings and programs?
>
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