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From: maklecki@undergrad.math.uwaterloo.ca (Kyle Leckie)
Subject: Re: help /var and /user no longer found
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Date: Tue, 19 Mar 1996 23:22:11 GMT
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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