On Sun, Jan 20, 2013 at 9:32 PM, Alok Singh Mahor <[email protected]>wrote:
> > > 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 > another thing I guess I can proceed without formating / because in case of Ubuntu it tells me that /use, /etc and few more directories will get deleted. so Ubuntu is handling this even if I dont delete folders except /home. but I am not sure whether Ubuntu installer delete all the directories except /home or it delete only few important directories e.g. /etc, /var, /usr -- Mailing list guidelines and other related articles: http://lug-iitd.org/Footer
