On 03/04/14 05:22 AM, Marek Otahal wrote: > Hello, > > I've lost content of /var, other partitions are ok, so system somewhat > boots up (to recovery mode). > What is the less pain method to get it again up and running? The problem I > see are pacman list of installed packages? Any other notes on what > important things could be missing? > > Thank you very much for any help, > Mark > > PS: no backups :-/
You can install a fresh install on top of the old install by using `pacstrap`. I would boot up a live cd, move /etc to /etc_old, then remove all other top levels directories other than /home, and install again with pacstrap. The pacman database was in /var so there's little point in trying to reinstall the same packages, and it doesn't seem very important anyway - you'll remember what you used when it's missing, and it's trivial to install it again.
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