I have heard of that method before, it's essentially an undelete. It comes from only the file descriptor being deleted in the File System table, and not the actual file. I've never tried it personally though. In any case, glad you got it working. You can see what commands you used by running the history command. If you do find the commands you ran, please post them. I'd like to see what you used.
Jeremiah E. Bess Network Ninja, Penguin Geek, Father of five. <https://plus.google.com/u/0/103182072532361592558> <https://www.facebook.com/jeremiahbess> <http://www.linkedin.com/profile/view?id=47451026> On Sat, Mar 10, 2012 at 06:16, Scott Vargovich <[email protected]>wrote: > ... and I learned about /etc/mtab being the crux of pacman. If I were > saying this 30 yrs ago, it would have a different meaning!!! :P > > > On Sat, Mar 10, 2012 at 6:37 AM, Scott Vargovich > <[email protected]>wrote: > >> I used every bit of my duckduckgo-fu to get the answer. BTW - If you're >> using Google as your search engine, you're being tracked. >> duckduckgo.comdoesn't allow tracking. It involved going into /dev and >> echoing the >> contents of a device in there and it was restored. I then had to do a >> filesystem --force and that got pacman going again. I wish I would've >> documented the fix because it probably would be helpful to have in the >> archives, but I didn't. My household is entirely Arch, except my wifey's >> cell phone which is Android - based on Linux, although she doesn't know it. >> I have escaped all the branches from the Debian tree! I think it's time >> for a good old-fashioned Arch *PAR-TAY*!!! >> >> >> On Fri, Mar 9, 2012 at 11:11 PM, Jeremiah Bess >> <[email protected]>wrote: >> >>> Hmm...not sure how to get that file back without creating it manually. I >>> can send you mine tomorrow (I am at work tonight), but you will have to >>> adjust everything for your system. >>> >>> By chance, were you upgrading the Filesystem package? If so, read this: >>> http://www.archlinux.org/news/filesystem-upgrade-manual-intervention-required/ >>> >>> >>> Jeremiah E. Bess >>> Network Ninja, Penguin Geek, Father of five. >>> >>> <https://plus.google.com/u/0/103182072532361592558> >>> <https://www.facebook.com/jeremiahbess> >>> <http://www.linkedin.com/profile/view?id=47451026> >>> >>> >>> >>> On Fri, Mar 9, 2012 at 08:50, Scott Vargovich <[email protected]>wrote: >>> >>>> Jeremiah, >>>> >>>> I'm installing Arch on my desktop box. I had an error when I was doing >>>> 'pacman -Syy; pacman -Syu'. I thought I would get by it by deleting mtab. >>>> When I did that, pacman broke. Is there any way to recover the mtab file >>>> without reinstalling? >>>> >>>> -- >>>> <>< Scott Vargovich <>< >>>> ------------------------------------------ >>>> OpenPGP Key ID: F8F5DC7E >>>> ------------------------------------------ >>>> >>>> -- >>>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Linux Users >>>> Group. >>>> To post a message, send email to [email protected] >>>> To unsubscribe, send email to >>>> [email protected] >>>> For more options, visit our group at >>>> http://groups.google.com/group/linuxusersgroup >>>> References can be found at: http://goo.gl/anqri >>>> Please remember to abide by our list rules ( >>>> http://tinyurl.com/LUG-Rules or http://cdn.fsdev.net/List-Rules.pdf) >>>> >>> >>> -- >>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Linux Users >>> Group. >>> To post a message, send email to [email protected] >>> To unsubscribe, send email to >>> [email protected] >>> For more options, visit our group at >>> http://groups.google.com/group/linuxusersgroup >>> References can be found at: http://goo.gl/anqri >>> Please remember to abide by our list rules (http://tinyurl.com/LUG-Rulesor >>> http://cdn.fsdev.net/List-Rules.pdf) >>> >> >> >> >> -- >> <>< Scott Vargovich <>< >> ------------------------------------------ >> OpenPGP Key ID: F8F5DC7E >> ------------------------------------------ >> > > > > -- > <>< Scott Vargovich <>< > ------------------------------------------ > OpenPGP Key ID: F8F5DC7E > ------------------------------------------ > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Linux Users > Group. > To post a message, send email to [email protected] > To unsubscribe, send email to [email protected] > For more options, visit our group at > http://groups.google.com/group/linuxusersgroup > References can be found at: http://goo.gl/anqri > Please remember to abide by our list rules (http://tinyurl.com/LUG-Rulesor > http://cdn.fsdev.net/List-Rules.pdf) > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Linux Users Group. To post a message, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit our group at http://groups.google.com/group/linuxusersgroup References can be found at: http://goo.gl/anqri Please remember to abide by our list rules (http://tinyurl.com/LUG-Rules or http://cdn.fsdev.net/List-Rules.pdf)
