From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jun 12 9:58:24 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from lcmail2.lc.ca.gov (lcmail2.lc.ca.gov [165.107.12.11]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9B8CF37B408 for ; Tue, 12 Jun 2001 09:58:20 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from drewt@writeme.com) Received: from CONVERSION-DAEMON by lcmail2.lc.ca.gov (PMDF V5.2-27 #40821) id <0GET00O01TS7CW@lcmail2.lc.ca.gov> for freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org; Tue, 12 Jun 2001 09:58:11 -0700 (PDT) Received: from tagalong ([165.107.42.244]) by lcmail2.lc.ca.gov (PMDF V5.2-27 #40821) with SMTP id <0GET00GQWTQ8YS@lcmail2.lc.ca.gov> for freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org; Tue, 12 Jun 2001 09:56:36 -0700 (PDT) Date: Tue, 12 Jun 2001 09:56:41 -0700 From: Drew Tomlinson Subject: How to Restore /var Tree? To: "FreeBSD Questions (E-mail)" Message-id: <5CD46247635BD511B6B100A0CC3F0239259F88@ldcmsx01.lc.ca.gov> MIME-version: 1.0 X-MIMEOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4522.1200 X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook CWS, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2911.0) Content-type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit Importance: Normal X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-priority: Normal Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I made a major "booboo". In an attempt to move my /var file system (is this the right term?) I deleted it. This 4.3 machine was built recently and I hadn't implemented a backup strategy yet. So, is there a way to rebuild the default /var file system from source without rebuilding the entire system or doing it all by hand? I might do it by hand but I don't know what the layout is and I don't have another machine to look at. Any advice or suggestions other than not to delete /var in the first place and do backups? :) Thanks, Drew To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message