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How to reinstall Mint without losing information?

Hello. i'm new In Linux world and recently i've installed Mint Qiana.Afterwards a while i want to upgrado to Rebecca, but i mess up something, and now may Linux don't desire to showtime. I'one thousand ready to reinstall, but want to go on my data, i've tried to backup to USB, but without a success.So i decided to try to reinstall and go on my data, only i don't know how.
Tin can you delight help me.I have only one partition on my deejay considering i was scared and don't know how to distributed my disks.It easier in WIndows, or maybe i just don't know how like shooting fish in a barrel is on Linux. So, thanks and distressing for my bad English language. :)

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Re: How to reinstall Mint without losing data?

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Hi, Greenlife.

Your first idea of backing upwards all your information to an external medium was the (simply) right idea! :D
With but 1 Linux Mint partition, the root partition /, the only way of making sure you will not lose your information when re-installing from scratch is by backing up all your data get-go and restoring them one time the installation has finished successfully.

So the question is: Why did the backup fail? What went incorrect? Any fault messages which yous would like to share with us perhaps?

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Well, my virtually precious data is 18GB .nada file with photos, and thats the only file that i desire to salvage.But i don't have (and can't find) external deejay so big.Peradventure if there is a mode to divided the file? At present i'1000 using LiveCD then i don't accept permission to piece of work in my old /habitation folder, but i'll take to save this photos :). If i save them i tin can do clean installation.

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You lot have options. A petty patience might be needed.

Y'all could purchase a higher chapters USB flash drive. One perhaps with 32 or 64 GB. Another option would be an external USB powered optical DVD burner. They are pretty cheap these days. Although it may require multiple discs once those photos are backed up they'll be available for viewing on other systems besides.

I personally use both of the above stated options. Each has saved me many times.

If your computer is a desktop using a 2nd hard bulldoze as a skilful culling. Even if the case only has spece to agree one bulldoze frequently you can still connect some other bulldoze temporarily. A more permanent solution would exist to employ an external docking station for a second difficult drive. Added do good of being an ideal backup tool after.

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Re: How to reinstall Mint without losing data?

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Greenlife wrote:Well, my most precious data is 18GB .zip file with photos, and thats the only file that i want to salve.Just i don't have (and can't notice) external disk so large.Maybe if in that location is a manner to divided the file? At present i'm using LiveCD and then i don't have permission to work in my sometime /home folder, but i'll have to save this photos :). If i salve them i can do make clean installation.

You can create new zip files and move files out of that one into the new i. I'd keep all nada files in future to under 2GB in size, then they could exist stored on FAT32 flashdrives. If you practice become a flashdrive to store information technology on, don't become from EBay due to fakes which lose data being smaller than marked and reported to OS, buy direct from manufacturer such equally Kingston, or a big box store like BestBuy. If you need larger size file on information technology than 2TB, then it must be formatted in something other than FAT32, similar ext4 or NTFS (If you lot desire access in windows).

Notice below I accept opened ii copies of Archive Manager (engrampa) and copied a file from each zippo into the other zip. You tin also motility a file using the correct clk and "cut", or by holding the Shift key while dragging into the other file. What you practice is open up Archive Manager, create a New File to create the new zilch file to employ. In the status bar at bottom you tin can see the size of the nil abound every bit you add files, then limit each one to no more than 2TB in size.

two engrampa zip files.
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files copied between the zip files using engrampa archive manager.
files copied between the naught files using engrampa annal manager.

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By far, the easiest thing to do (from the get become)
is to create [at least] 3 partitions swap, /, /home
When yous re-install and cull "something different" (or advanced or whatsoever the installer calls it).
swap and / will become re-formatted and you just marking /home to "use"

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Re: How to reinstall Mint without losing data?

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Copy the home binder stuff to another partition or external hdd and format root and swap partition and reinstall Linux with home at the sectionalisation you lot moved your stuff. Try to double compress file to save space

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How big is your hard drive currently?
Does it accept plenty room to create a "new" linux partition greater than 18G?
Seems like you might after reading http://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.php?f=90&t=183908
a 1T drive? is Plenty to accomplish the task.
Open a last and result these ii commands:

and report the output here.

If this shows that yous do have the additional hard drive space then it is possible to create a new linux partition and so format it and copy your information to it and then you would choose "something else" during the install and designate that new sectionalization as the /home partition.

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Filesystem Type Size Used Avail Utilize% Mounted on
/cow overlayfs iii.9G 580M 3.4G 15% /
udev devtmpfs 3.9G 4.0K 3.9G 1% /dev
tmpfs tmpfs 798M 1.4M 797M 1% /run
/dev/sdb1 vfat three.6G ane.2G two.5G 33% /cdrom
/dev/loop0 squashfs 1.2G one.2G 0 100% /rofs
none tmpfs 4.0K 0 four.0K 0% /sys/fs/cgroup
tmpfs tmpfs three.9G 24M three.9G one% /tmp
none tmpfs five.0M 4.0K 5.0M i% /run/lock
none tmpfs 3.9G 2.5M 3.9G 1% /run/shm
none tmpfs 100M 20K 100M i% /run/user
/dev/sda1 ext4 910G 163G 700G nineteen% /media/mint/0b17002d-a52f-4cd1-bad8-667fd0892150

Its 1TB hard drive

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