Re: [arch-general] /var lost, how "reinstal" Archlinux?

2014-04-03 Thread Jeff Daniel Rollin-Jones
It might actually be easier to reinstall than to go through "pacmanning" everything that's been lost, individually. Sent from my iPhone > On 3 Apr 2014, at 10:28, Martti Kühne wrote: > > Or better, check with the command that tests all packages' files for presence. > > # pacman -Qk | grep -v

Re: [arch-general] Migrating /var to a different partition

2014-09-04 Thread Jeff Daniel Rollin-Jones
I'd say copy everything in /var to /mnt. cp -a /var/* /mnt or cp -dpR /var/* /mnt That way you don't lose anything if there's a power cut at an inconvenient time, and you can change ftstab, reboot, and then check everything's working before you hose your original /var (which if you do it thi