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wearetheborg
November 23rd, 2011, 08:49 PM
For my problem
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1885191

It looks like I will have to reformat.
Instead of reinstalling, can I mount the / partition using a live CD, copy over the files to an external HDD, reformat and copy back the files to / ?

If so, anything that I should be careful about? Will cp -r * work?