On Thu, 22 Dec 2011 13:35:30 -0400 Norbert Zeh <n...@cs.dal.ca> wrote: > > Slightly OT: Interestingly enough, I did exactly what the news item says not > to do: deleted the mtab file and then ran pacman -Suy. This didn't cause any > trouble at my end. > > N. >
This is because you didn't have space checks enabled. From man 5 pacman.conf:
CheckSpace
Performs an approximate check for adequate available disk space
before installing packages.
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