sand wrote: > Hi Linux gurus, > > Is it possible to make a complete reinstall of the Linux OS (QNAP > TS109) without a reformat? > > I want to keep my data files only. > > That depends on your filesystem layout (and I'm presuming you're not using LVM). If you've got the data you want to keep on a non system partition, such as in /home, then you can re-install the rest of the disk and mount /home in the re-installed OS.
If you've just got one large filesystem then it's not going to happen if you need to ask how to do it. None of the Linux distributions I know would support such an install so you would have to manually fudge your own install using a pretty decent amount of expertise along the way. Either way, I would recommend you back up the data! If you can find space to do that elsewhere then you can re-install without any worries about the data and restore at a later date. -- Graham White <graham UNDERSCORE alton AT hotmail DOT com> _______________________________________________ unix mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/unix
