netbsd-help: Re: Oh My... /etc is GONE!

Subject: Re: Oh My... /etc is GONE!
To: Robert Schmid <robert@ancept.com>
From: Simon Baker <Simon.Baker@ukerna.ac.uk>
List: netbsd-help
Date: 04/22/1999 16:57:58

Here's a thought. It's quite unusual that it would just 'entirely' 
disappear, so why not do a find for, say inetd.conf. That should sort 
you out....or so I'd hope ;()
On 1999年4月22日, Herb Peyerl wrote:
> Robert Schmid <robert@ancept.com> wrote:
> > I was trying to install a package using pkg_add when I realized I was in
> > /etc instead of /. So I CTRL-C out and switched to /. Suddenly /etc was
> > gone. Someone please tell me this was a disk error that will be magically
> > fixed on reboot somehow.
> > 
> > If not - how did I do this? Is there anyway to recover without
> > reinstalling a new /etc directory?
> 
> beats me 'what happened' but /var/backups is your friend.
> 
>