Message: 1 Date: Fri, 23 Sep 2016 18:32:07 +0100 From: niya levi To: arch-general@archlinux.org Subject: [arch-general] how to restore root and boot directory Message-ID: <198a7e51-313b-6e03-ada4-b0727c6afe86@gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8

Hi everyone while reinstalling arch on raspberry pi memory stick i had the two partitions mounted on mount points called root and boot in my home dir on my laptop, i intended to delete everything in root and boot in my home directory but lost my mind and rm -rf /boot/* and /root/* instead, is there a easy way to restore files to boot and do i just fix the root user directory with useradd ? shadrock

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Message: 2 Date: Fri, 23 Sep 2016 19:46:03 +0200 From: Damjan Georgievski To: General Discussion about Arch Linux Subject: Re: [arch-general] how to restore root and boot directory Message-ID: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8

/root really shouldn't have anything of importance, unless you left it there - in which case, you can't recover it

/boot has the kernel, the initramfs - which can be recreated if you reinstall the "linux" package

and probably some bootloader files that you can also reinstall depending on the boot loader: - grub-install - extlinux - bootctl

-- damjan ------------------------------ Message: 3 Date: Fri, 23 Sep 2016 14:46:46 -0300 From: Fernando To: General Discussion about Arch Linux Cc: niya levi Subject: Re: [arch-general] how to restore root and boot directory Message-ID: <1474652806.1050.0@smtp.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed El vie, 23 de sep 2016 a las 2:32 , niya levi via arch-general escribi?: Hi! First you have to reinstall filesystem package.

To list the packages that contains files in /boot use. You have to reinstall those packages.

pacman -Ql | grep " /boot/"

and then configure your bootloader.

Fernando Fernandez Software Peronista

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Message: 6 Date: Fri, 23 Sep 2016 22:55:53 +0200 From: J?r?me M. Berger To: arch-general@archlinux.org Subject: Re: [arch-general] how to restore root and boot directory Message-ID: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8"

On 09/23/2016 07:46 PM, Fernando wrote:

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To list the packages that contains files in /boot use. You have to reinstall those packages.

pacman -Ql | grep " /boot/"

Or pacman -Qo /boot, which gives me:

/boot/ is owned by filesystem 2015.09-1 /boot/ is owned by intel-ucode 20160714-1 /boot/ is owned by linux 4.7.4-1 /boot/ is owned by linux-lts 4.4.21-1 /boot/ is owned by syslinux 6.03-6

So you need to reinstall at least "filesystem" and "linux" plus whatever booloader you're using. Reinstalling "linux" should run mkinitcpio automatically but your bootloader will need to be reconfigured.

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thanks for all the replies i did pacman -Ql | grep " /boot/" which gave me the following grub /boot/ grub /boot/grub/ grub /boot/grub/grub.cfg linux /boot/ linux /boot/vmlinuz-linux so i installed grub and linux then ran grub-install /dev/sda grub-mkconfig -o /boot/grub/grub.cfg i haven't rebooted yet as i have to backup some stuff and i'm in the middle of a project i need to complete. will report back when i reboot the laptop, again thanks for all the advice. shadrock