Hermes Bird
November 19th, 2010, 11:04 AM
Hi all, I'm new here as to Ubuntu itself. And while Ive had much fun learning, tweaking, downloading, etc. Things to my liking I get that feeling that problems might start to occur soon no thanks to my curiosity/meddling and would like to do another (3-4th time already) installation of linux.
My problem is that all my media files: music, photos, videos, etc. I want to keep: while at the same time deleting anything I've had previously installed (such as settings, etc) and make it as if it were a fresh install. Yes I do have my /home partition separate from the root.
So I'm wondering whether it'd be safe to delete all my hidden folders,app settings,etc in my /home partition before making a fresh install to the /root partition and being able to safely keep all my media files in the /home partition without formating it?
Sorry if its a little hard to understand, I'm mentally exhausted from all the things Ive learned of Linux these last 3 days :D thnx ahead for the help
My problem is that all my media files: music, photos, videos, etc. I want to keep: while at the same time deleting anything I've had previously installed (such as settings, etc) and make it as if it were a fresh install. Yes I do have my /home partition separate from the root.
So I'm wondering whether it'd be safe to delete all my hidden folders,app settings,etc in my /home partition before making a fresh install to the /root partition and being able to safely keep all my media files in the /home partition without formating it?
Sorry if its a little hard to understand, I'm mentally exhausted from all the things Ive learned of Linux these last 3 days :D thnx ahead for the help