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

[Jerome Leclanche]

In a slim install, you're unlikely to have lost much due to the nature
of /var (only variable data, aka no "installed files"). If you had a
database on disk you did lose that, eg postgres. Also firewall rules
and all logs.

Try pacman -Ql | grep /var to see what owns stuff in there.
J. Leclanche


On Thu, Apr 3, 2014 at 10:22 AM, Marek Otahal <markotahal at gmail.com> 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 :-/
>
> --
> Marek Otahal :o)