[arch-general] pacman -Syu fails due to conflict with mtab?

[Leonid Isaev]

On Thu, 22 Dec 2011 13:35:30 -0400
Norbert Zeh <nzeh at cs.dal.ca> wrote:
> 
> Slightly OT: Interestingly enough, I did exactly what the news item says not
> to do: deleted the mtab file and then ran pacman -Suy.  This didn't cause any
> trouble at my end.
> 
> N.
> 

This is because you didn't have space checks enabled. From man 5 pacman.conf:
CheckSpace
           Performs an approximate check for adequate available disk space
before installing packages.

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