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Re: [trinity-users] Doing Non-Destructive Installations?

From: Lisi Reisz <lisi.reisz@...>
Date: Sat, 12 Apr 2014 23:08:00 +0100
On Saturday 12 April 2014 15:59:09 Calvin Morrison wrote:
> Honestly I don't think you'll loose your data, as long as you
> choose not to reformat it. I can't imagine a scenario where they do
> a full disk wipe

Do manual partitioning, tell it not to format your /home - but 
back-up, back-up, back-up. ;-)  I have retained /home quite often 
when installing or reinstalling, and alwasy got away with it so far, 
but I would never not back-up at least once first, more often if 
possible.

Lisi