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If you upgrade Arch without rebooting, don't you get messed up by losing unloaded kernel modules (because Arch doesn't keep old kernels)?


Hasn't been an issue yet.

But it ever does, I'll probably adopt and adapt one of the solutions from this thread [0].

[0] https://www.reddit.com/r/archlinux/comments/4zrsc3/keep_your...


Oh, excellent; thank you. I mentioned it because this has bitten me, so I'll want to use that fix.

Fun story: for $REASONS, I have an Arch system with root on btrfs and /boot on ext4, and it doesn't usually have the boot partition mounted (it's a poorly done mutiboot issue). I recently discovered that this means if I forget to mount boot before updating I get stuck with no loaded drivers to mount /boot :) Thankfully kexec worked, but I'd like to not need to do that:)




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