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[arch-announce] filesystem upgrade - manual intervention required
by Arch Linux: Recent news updates: Tom Gundersen 20 Dec '11

20 Dec '11

Tom Gundersen wrote: When upgrading to `filesystem-2011.12` there will be a conflict with `/etc/mtab`. Install the package as follows: `pacman -S filesystem --force` It is strongly advised to avoid the `--force` or `-f` switch as it is not safe. However, in this particular case it is needed as deleting `/etc/mtab` manually would break pacman. The reason for the conflict is that the file used to be generated at boot and hence not owned by any package. Now it is a symlink to `/proc/self/mounts` owned by `filesystem`. This change means that `initscripts` no longer requires write access to the rootfs (though other packages might). URL: http://www.archlinux.org/news/filesystem-upgrade-manual-intervention-requir…

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