How to recover/reinitialize a trashed /var partition?
Brandon D. Valentine
brandon at dvalentine.com
Wed Jul 28 18:19:30 PDT 2004
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
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