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redshoe

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Registered: 2015-12-16

Posts: 255

Reinstalling (overwriting install) does not work

I accidentally deleted parts of /usr directory by mistake. Now, I am in the process of recovering my system. What I am doing now is using installation media to reinstall the system by doing pacstrap. But, it seem that basic binary files in /usr/bin are not being populated when I reinstall Linux. This is what I did.

1 Boot from installation media.
2. mounted drives to /mnt and /mnt/boot
3. pacstrap -K /mnt base base-devel linux linux-firmware ...
4. Try to arch-chroot /mnt

In step 4, I get

chroot: failed to run command '/bin/bash': No such file or directory

So, when I checked /mnt/usr/bin, there weren't basic binary files in the directory. I don't understand why reinstalling does not work.

Last edited by redshoe (Yesterday 22:37:40)

noesoespanol

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Registered: 2026-03-30

Posts: 53

Re: Reinstalling (overwriting install) does not work

Not a help but for future, use CloneZilla and get a clone once in a while, a good backup plan for such incidents.