Hi, I’ve been using MATE 16.04 for a little over a week in VM and have decided to make it my main OS. If I format my existing / sda1 and install MATE /, can I leave my existing /home as is and just mount it?

Hello If you have a separate /home partition then it should not pose any problem to reuse it for the new install. Make sure: That you have a backup of your important files. The size of your previous root partition is at least the minimum disk space requirement. If you’re using the same user name…

Migrating from Ubuntu 14.04

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alpinejohn 3 September 2017 04:31 3

Hallo Huxley

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