2012/1/4 Florian Pritz <bluewind@xxxxxxx>: > On 04.01.2012 20:23, Lars Madson wrote: >> Hi, >> >> My system has two hard drive, one SSD with / and /home/user on two >> partitions and a HDD mounted on /opt and /var. >> >> The HDD failed, and the system works with only the SSD as it was installed >> like this and then extended to the HDD. >> >> Now I'm performing an upgrade of the whole system to get back to normal but >> all files in /usr are making conflict as the /opt and /var are older and >> trying to install files that are already there. > >> Or maybe I >> would love some kind of option in pacman that would overwrite or ignore >> those conflicts, I know that's against how pacman is build so I'm asking >> here. > > If you are careful you can use --force and pacman will ignore every > existing file and overwrite it. In this case it sounds like this is > justified, but please do NOT use it when you are not absolutely sure > about what you are doing. If --force breaks something it's totally your > fault. > > Sorry I'm stressing this so much, but lots of people seem to think using > it is safe or supported, but it's not. > > Before you do this, please check if there are any conflicts outside of > those 2 directories (filter pacman output with `grep -v -e ": /opt/" -e > ": /var/"`) and also create a backup of them (/opt and /var) in case you > overwrite something you shouldn't. > > You should also reinstall every installed package just in case something > hasn't received an update yet. `(pacman -Qq; pacman -Qqm) | sort | uniq > -u` should give you a list of all install package without AUR ones. > > -- > Florian Pritz > Out of interest, would it be a better option to use a livecd of sorts to manually move /opt and /var from the SDD to the HDD and adjust the fstab accordingly?
