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Originally Posted by agentchange
7.8 GB total diskspace
.5 GB swap
7.3 GB Partition 1
1.3 GB Free Space
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I'm a little confused. Do you mean your disk is partitioned as follows:
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7.8 GB total diskspace
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.5 GB swap
6.0 GB Partition 1
1.3 GB Free Space
Basically the original figures don't add up, or I'm misinterpreting them. It might be helpful to post the output of
Note that's a lowercase "L".
In any case, doing a clean install rather than an upgrade is what I'd recommend. Assuming you repartition and/or reformat your partitions during the install, then Yes, the existing files will be overwritten. Note that if you don't reformat an existing partition (eg, /home) the data in it will remain as is. What I do when upgrading and/or experimenting with a new distro is to reformat all partitions except /home. In that way, I can install the new distro "around" my /home directory