If all he did was install the new drive as /var, then all he
should need to do would be to unmount the new drive, rename
the location it mounts to, and remount it. /var would then
only be hidden, not actually deleted.
Bill Ward
-----Original Message-----
From: Bill Carlson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Friday, January 07, 2000 9:27 AM
To: Martin Alge
Cc: recipient.list.not.shown; @nswcphdn.navy.mil
Subject: Re: Deleted /var directory
On Fri, 7 Jan 2000, Martin Alge wrote:
> Hi,
> unfortunately I deleted the /var directory by adding a new
> drive to my
> Red Hat Server.
> I have no back up.
> Does the system start up without the /var directory?
> How can I reinstall all the stuff that has been in the /var
> directory?
> Thank you for your help.
> Best regards
> Martin Alge
>
/var is fairly important, without a backup your best (quickest) option is
to reinstall. Then get a backup strategy of some type in place.
How did you happen to delete /var? What command did you use? I'm wondering
if you might have renamed /var rather than actually delete it (you would
have had to do something like "rm -R /var" and it would have taken some
time to complete).
Good Luck,
Bill Carlson
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