Date: Tue, 12 Jun 2001 18:43:24 +0100 From: Mark Drayton <mark.drayton@4thwave.co.uk> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: How to Restore /var Tree? Message-ID: <20010612184324.A11577@tethys.valhalla.net> In-Reply-To: <200106121724.NAA01883@scraemondaemon.my.domain>; from ipthomas_77@yahoo.com on Tue, Jun 12, 2001 at 01:24:26PM -0400 References: <5CD46247635BD511B6B100A0CC3F0239259F88@ldcmsx01.lc.ca.gov> <200106121724.NAA01883@scraemondaemon.my.domain>
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Ian P. Thomas (ipthomas_77@yahoo.com) wrote: > In the last episode, Drew Tomlinson stated... > > > > 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? :) > > There is a directory called mtree that has the generic layout of all > the base file systems. I think it's in /etc. Please note I haven't tried this in the root directory - I tried it in a subdirectory and it seemed to work fine. YMMV etc. mkdir /var cd /var mtree -du -f /etc/mtree/BSD.var.dist This will recreate all the directories in /var, complete with proper ownerships and permissions from a specification stored in /etc/mtree. Obviously it won't restore your data... Cheers, -- Mark Drayton To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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