On Sat, Jan 19, 2013 at 8:06 PM, gajendra khanna <[email protected]>wrote:
> in my opinion, its not a recommended practice to do so. Always format and > install. Two file versions may not be the same for some packages and cause > issues. > Regards > Gajendra > @Gajendra sir-- suppose i dont have separate partition for /home. and I want to reinstall Linux on existing / partition. before installation I delete all the directories and files except /home and then installing on this partition. all the files/folders have deleted so there will not be any chances of issues/conflicts because of remnants of previous Linux. I am following this practice since last few installations on computer where disk space is very less about 10GB. because creating separate /home out of 10GB would be difficult. so is such practice of having one one / partition ok? becasue whenever I want to reinstall I will simply delete all the folders except /home -- Mailing list guidelines and other related articles: http://lug-iitd.org/Footer
