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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc 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!torn!watserv3.uwaterloo.ca!undergrad.math.uwaterloo.ca!maklecki From: maklecki@undergrad.math.uwaterloo.ca (Kyle Leckie) Subject: Re: help /var and /user no longer found Sender: news@undergrad.math.uwaterloo.ca (news spool owner) Message-ID: <DoJFKz.1zp@undergrad.math.uwaterloo.ca> Date: Tue, 19 Mar 1996 23:22:11 GMT References: <crb-1803960124300001@128.8.21.94> <4iktq1$sl4@uriah.heep.sax.de> <crb-1903961612150001@128.8.22.80> Nntp-Posting-Host: descartes.uwaterloo.ca Organization: University of Waterloo Lines: 23 In article <crb-1903961612150001@128.8.22.80>, Christopher R. Bowman <crb@eng.umd.edu> wrote: <snip> >what to do. I believe I know how to edit /etc/fstab to mount /dev/wd1f >instead of /dev/wd1s1f on /usr but this doesn't seem right to me. FreeBSD >set up that file for me and I see no reason to change it when I haven't >made chagnes to the system that should require it and it was working fine >before, and I don't know what the implication are of makeing the change. > <snip> I had the same thing happen to me, The FreeBSD install program set up /etc/fstab and all was well, then for no apparant reason the the entries in dev seemed to change and cause /etc/fstab to be incorrect. I thought it was just my set up, I guess I was wrong. correcting /etc/fstab work for me. Kyle