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From: "Charles Burns" <burnscharlesn@hotmail.com>
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Subject: Re: Uh oh .. I did a bad thing.. somehow I lost /var
Date: Sat, 10 Mar 2001 07:31:05 -0700
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Looks like you're going to have to reinstall.
There may be another way to recover, but I do not know of any.
You may try booting from the FreeBSD CD and telling it that you are 
upgrading your system. I have never tried that, but it may work.

Remember the golden rule: Back up your data. I'ver learned my lesson. Er, 
several times. ;-)

>From: Kurtis Smith <ksscendyn@yahoo.com>
>To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
>Subject: Uh oh .. I did a bad thing.. somehow I lost /var
>Date: Fri, 09 Mar 2001 15:00:33 -0800
>
>Well on accident today I managed to build another
>AMD K6/2 300Mhz FIC-503+ successfully however
>
>when I was doing the normal mkdir /usr/var
>cd /var
>tar cf - . | (cd /usr/var; tar xf - )
>cd /
>rm -rf /var
>ln -s /usr/var /var
>
>
>I managed to make it where when you cd /var
>
>It comes up with what eever is in /etc and now it cannot boot properly
>
>Can someone show me the quick fix .. I know I had a typo..
>
>Man I feel stupid TGIF!!
>
>thanks again guys!
>
>
>-Kurt
>
>
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