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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!newshost.nla.gov.au!act.news.telstra.net!psgrain!newsfeed.internetmci.com!howland.reston.ans.net!math.ohio-state.edu!magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu!lerc.nasa.gov!purdue!haven.umd.edu!cville-srv.wam.umd.edu!NewsWatcher!user From: crb@eng.umd.edu (Christopher R. Bowman) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: help /var and /user no longer found Date: Mon, 18 Mar 1996 01:24:30 -0500 Organization: University of Maryland Lines: 22 Message-ID: <crb-1803960124300001@128.8.21.94> NNTP-Posting-Host: annex3-31.dial.umd.edu I just got freebsd up and running a few days ago. While I was trying to get the ATAPI cdrom drive to mount, I did a /bin/sh MAKEDEV all which seemed to work fine, and made all the devices. So I go about my business, and eventually do a normal shutdown. I go and run pspice in windows for a while, and later when I reboot to run freebsd again, the kernal can't seem to find any partitions/slices other than the root. The machine boot the kernal and then when it goes to swap on either drive it says no such file or device, same for mounting /usr and /var. I went back and ran the boot/installation floppy and it still see that freebsd partiton, and the slices inside that partition however it does seem to have lost the names ie it doesn't tell me which is /usr and which is /var. So I tried to relabel them with out newfsing, but the expert option would not let me relabel without a repartition which I don't want to do since I don't want to loose what is on the partitions. Can any one offer suggestions as to what happened and how to go about fixing it? I really seem to be in a bind. ----- Christopher R. Bowman crb@eng.umd.edu <A HREF="http://www.glue.umd.edu/~crb">My home page</A>