On 04.01.2012 20:51, Stefan Wilkens wrote: > 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. >> [..] >> 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. > > 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? Using a live cd is probably the only sane way since /var is going to be in use by cron/syslog/whatnot. You'll still have to reinstall everything though because the pacman database is out of sync with the system. -- Florian Pritz
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