From owner-freebsd-questions Sat May 18 15:26:48 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id PAA24727 for questions-outgoing; Sat, 18 May 1996 15:26:48 -0700 (PDT) Received: from soda.CSUA.Berkeley.EDU (soda.CSUA.Berkeley.EDU [128.32.43.52]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id PAA24722 for ; Sat, 18 May 1996 15:26:45 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from richardc@localhost) by soda.CSUA.Berkeley.EDU (8.6.12/8.6.12) id PAA13989; Sat, 18 May 1996 15:26:35 -0700 Date: Sat, 18 May 1996 15:26:33 -0700 (PDT) From: Veggy Vinny To: Chad Shackley cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Screwed / partition In-Reply-To: <199605180132.VAA03570@darius.cris.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Fri, 17 May 1996, Chad Shackley wrote: > RE my last note about FreeBSD not starting, the sysinstall program just > automatically runs upon startup and the system reboots again after exiting > sysinstall: > > Since I can get to all the partitions using a fixit floppy, I backed up > everything I need from the / partition. Is there a safe way to "redo" the / > partition, just start it and only it from scratch, and hopefully to > reinstall the proper startup procedure with it? I'd like to keep my /usr > and /var partitions, they seem to be normal. Just do a tarball of /etc, /var and /usr and then reinstall from scratch but /var doesn't really need a 4 gig partition since most of the space should be on the /usr partition... you might want to symlink /var/mail to somewhere in the /usr partition and move all the incoming mail there first. Cheers, -Vince- richardc@CSUA.Berkeley.EDU - vince@COSC.GOV - vince@cygnus.sy.yale.edu GUS Mailing Lists Admin - http://www.COSC.GOV/~vince UC Berkeley AstroPhysics - Electrical Engineering (Honorary B.S.) Chabot Observatory & Science Center - Oakland, California USA Computing Networking Operations - Advisory Council Member Running FreeBSD - Real UN*X for Free! Linda Wong/Vivian Chow/Hacken Lee/Danny Chan/Priscilla Chan Fan Club Mailing Lists Admin 1996 Estoril Blue BMW ///M3 - BMW CCA Member Golden Gate Chapter