Date: Thu, 3 Dec 1998 14:11:41 -0800 (PST) From: Dan Busarow <dan@dpcsys.com> To: Bill Hamilton <billh@finsco.com> Cc: freebsd questions <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: /var wiped Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.981203140958.2733G-100000@java.dpcsys.com> In-Reply-To: <366700AC.3113D67C@finsco.com>
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On Thu, 3 Dec 1998, Bill Hamilton wrote: > I lost /var the other day. > fsck core dumped everytime on it. > fsdb was no help. > So, ... I closed by eyes and did a newfs /var and now the system > will come up. But I get various messages about missing directories. > I create them as needed. > This was a rather recent install of 2.2.7R without any ports except ksh. > What directories would I normally have on /var? > What files might I have lost that I don't know about yet? Well, you lost your logs and the pkg info for ksh but thats probably about it. Not too painful. Heres a massaged du /var/account /var/at/jobs /var/at/spool /var/backups /var/crash /var/cron/tabs /var/db/pkg /var/log /var/mail /var/msgs /var/preserve /var/run /var/rwho /var/spool/lock /var/spool/lpd /var/spool/mqueue /var/spool/output/lpd /var/spool/output /var/tmp/vi.recover /var/yp /var/games Dan -- Dan Busarow 949 443 4172 Dana Point Communications, Inc. dan@dpcsys.com Dana Point, California 83 09 EF 59 E0 11 89 B4 8D 09 DB FD E1 DD 0C 82 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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