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.