On Thu, Jul 29, 2004 at 01:43:29AM +0100, David Kreil wrote: > I am writing in the hope that someone can give me a hint of how to either > recover or recreate a virgin FreeBSD /var partition in an otherwise > (apparently) functioning system.
If you've still got /usr/obj around from your last buildworld you can boot to single user mode and installworld again. If not, you can use mtree(8) to recreate the hierarchy for /var. This should work: # mtree -deU -f /etc/mtree/BSD.var.dist -p /var You may have to touch/chown/chmod a few files here and there to make sure the appropriate users have permissions to write to/from them. See /usr/src/etc/Makefile for some more information on that. Unfortunately I don't think there is a 'var' target in any of those Makefiles. HTH, Brandon D. Valentine -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.geekpunk.net Pseudo-Random Googlism: brandon is gummmmy _______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
