Root filesystem corrupted, only var left

Gregosky · 2014-08-10 21:25:55

Hi fellow Arch users!

I was wondering if anybody would have an idea if it would be possible to restore packages and rebuild the system having only var partition.

In short - I have had an encrypted system with var and home stored on separate hard drives. Unfortunately hard drive that was storing root of the system got broken and I lost everything apart var and home.

I would be grateful for your thoughts,
Greg

Last edited by Gregosky (2014-10-14 19:18:14)

ooo · 2014-08-10 22:29:57

I think pacman databases, including list of installed packages are stored in /var/lib/pacman/, so at least you should be able to get list of installed packages somehow.

Gregosky · 2014-08-18 21:40:23

I came back from holiday and started working on restoring my Arch from var. Here is what I have done: I have formatted my new SSD hard drive, mounted it as /mnt, created /mnt/var and /mnt/boot, then I have mounted my var and boot partitions. Once mounted I have executed following:

pacman -r /mnt -Syu

. All packages were rebuilt and filesystem structure was restored however at the moment I'm unable to chroot to /mnt.

Gregosky · 2014-10-07 22:18:56

Well, it seems pacman have done something but libs were not rebuilt. I was playing around looking what bash dependencies should be rebuilt, and then their dependencies, and then deeper and deeper however with no luck.

In the end I decided to wipe out my /var, leave only /home with my user and build fresh install. My home was preserved so my kde settings are still there.

jasonwryan · 2014-10-07 22:28:45

Please don't use [Closed], it denotes a locked thread: use solved, or resolved.

Gregosky · 2014-10-12 02:45:43

jasonwryan - but the case is not solved (nor resolved...) - I could not find a solution to my problem (hence I could not post it here) so it remains unresolved however case is closed... Could you advice how should such case be marked?

graysky · 2014-10-12 12:16:52

Don't mark it at all.

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#1 2014-08-10 21:25:55

Root filesystem corrupted, only var left

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Re: Root filesystem corrupted, only var left

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#6 2014-10-12 02:45:43

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