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Will I lose data if I make new a new installation of Ubuntu in the same partition of a previous UBUNTU distribution? I don't want to change my partitions table again.

I have installed UBUNTU 12.04 32bits in my laptop (dual boot with WIN7) and I intend to upgrade for newer version which are not allowed in the "Software Up to Date" tool. Even to UBUNTU 12.10. Nevertheles, my main objective is to install a new UBUNTU version (64 bits) using the same partitions (sda3 with ext4, and sda4 with swap) and try to share the most of the personal documents (especially those in \home, and even some configuration files) between both unix systems.

I never did this before on UBUNTU but I know that is possible for other OS (I tried once on windows and it worked without losing personal data). I think for Linux I can do it but maybe I have to set another mount point. How exactly can I do this?

And which is my best option in your opinion?

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The simplest way is to make 2 backups:

  • 1 system backup (use http://CloneZilla.org disk-to-image)
  • 1 data backup (use whatever software you're using now).

Read here for more info.

Then, boot from the LiveCD, format both sda3 (system) and 4 (swap) (without repartitioning) and continue the install.

If anything goes wrong during the installation or if you accidentally format one of your data partitions (sda1 and 2 presumably) with compatibility, just restore the system backup...

After really bad stuff happening, restore both the system and data backup.

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