On 05/01/2019 01:15, Felix Miata wrote: > David Wright composed on 2019-01-04 19:21 (UTC-0600): > >> Ignoring /home as it dwarfs / in size, it would be very easy to make a >> mistake if you take an existing installation and hive off the /tmp and >> /var into separate partitions. The problem boils down to leaving the >> existing /var contents (in the root filesystem) in place when you >> mount the new var partition onto /var, thereby making those files >> inaccessible. > +1 > > So, boot rescue media, mount sda1, and check the contents of <mntdir>/var/. > Its apt cache might be > loaded, thus you might not any more have reason to reinstall - just delete > everything in it and > reboot. If something goes wrong, you planned on reinstalling anyway. :-)
No need for a live CD: you can use bind mounts to access the original contents of dirs that serve as mount points for other filesystems: https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/4426/access-to-original-contents-of-mount-point (Unless mount fails because of no free space...) -- Eduardo M KALINOWSKI edua...@kalinowski.com.br