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From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Cannot mout /usr or /var
Date: 1 Nov 1996 23:33:55 GMT
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cjb@efn.org (Chris Brunner) wrote:

> I cannot mount the /usr or the /var filesystems!!!
> The appropriate devices are gone, and I can't make new ones because it 
> say read-only file system.  What do I do?

fsck -p
mount -a -t ufs
cd /dev
sh MAKEDEV std
sh MAKEDEV wd0

-- 
cheers, J"org

joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE
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