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You should be able to chroot into the installation and reinstall all the existing packages so you can maintain your configurations and so on.
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No problem. A lot of people treat it like Windows and think a broken system has little hope to be repaired. My Arch system went belly up in the middle of a system wide upgrade, I just replaced all the packages in the cache after chrooting in, wasn't difficult at all.
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@glados Do it and use Btrfs. You can snapshot your filesystem so going back is as easy as a boot argument.
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makes me think of the hosting company that had "sudo RM -rf . /" in their backup script they had a space between the . and the / and they lost everything including their backups because the backup drive was mounted by the script.
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