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I broke my Arch Linux installation yesterday (lemmy.zip)

submitted 1 week ago by sh00g@lemmy.zip to c/linux@lemmy.world

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Well technically a power outage broke my system. My machine lost power in the middle of a pacman upgrade which left me able to boot, but with very limited functionality. Thankfully I keep an emergency live USB laying around for just such contingencies and was able to complete timely repairs. For the record, if anyone else runs into this problem the Arch Wiki has instructions on how to proceed.

I cannot express how much of a relief it is to have a system which is designed in such a way to enable this type of diagnostic and repair capability. It was also a great reminder to revisit my backup and recovery options which will be one of this weekend's projects.

My wife had a problem with her Windows 11 PC the other day and I literally couldn't even figure out how to begin to diagnose the issue, let alone fix it. I am so thankful for the Arch Wiki and the extensive documentation available to cover these types of situations. I know Arch will forever have the reputation for being a "hard" distribution, but not having to feel helpless when something goes wrong is so nice!

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[–] Sanctus@anarchist.nexus 21 points 1 week ago (2 children)

I have found in my short four years using Linux distros that people say arch is hard because you can't leave alone and sometimes the rolling releases break things with new implementations. I use it as my daily driver and the biggest issue I ever had was running out of space on the root partition the first manual install I did. Arch is lovely with the wiki, and honestly Debian too. I run those distros all over my house and I am in love with my home network.

[–] LwL@lemmy.world 5 points 6 days ago

Arch is hard if you don't like reading documentation and doing basic troubleshooting. Which is perfectly valid.

If you don't mind that or even enjoy learning things that way, arch is the nicest experience possible.

[–] duhlieluh@lemmy.zip 5 points 1 week ago (3 children)

how did you go about expanding your root partition?

[–] littleomid@feddit.org 1 points 6 days ago

Use gparted.

[–] Sanctus@anarchist.nexus 5 points 1 week ago (2 children)

I followed the Arch Wiki page on doing it. After all was said and done nothing happened so I wiped the entire thing and set it up right lol

[–] duhlieluh@lemmy.zip 3 points 1 week ago

sorry wrong person, thanks lol ill have to wait until i get my backup storage.

[–] bluGill@fedia.io 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

In my case it wasn't expanding the partition, it was clearing the pacman cache of old packages. I have limited space on my laptop.

[–] duhlieluh@lemmy.zip 3 points 1 week ago

thats what i did as well, using paccache to automate it. i would like to increase my partition size to 60-100 from 40 though, i just dont know how to go about it safely.