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Can I dd XFS home to backup drive then nuke home & resize root recreating new XFS home then dd file structure back?!?

Cannot upgrade Mint 17.3 to 18 as not enough room in root.

Would this work with a simple offline file manager copy?

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  • for the XFS file system, you should use xfsdump and xfsrestore, and not dd
    – ron
    Dec 1, 2016 at 21:25

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Reset to default
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sudo apt-get clean

freed enough space on root for upgrade. I had 1.3GB jumping to 7GB when cache cleared.

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