From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Mar 21 19:24:53 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from infofin.com (infofin.com [63.83.141.101]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7AC3137B71F for ; Wed, 21 Mar 2001 19:24:49 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from grog@sydney.worldwide.lemis.com) Received: from sydney.worldwide.lemis.com ([202.95.108.218]) by infofin.com (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id IAA11495; Thu, 22 Mar 2001 08:59:24 -0500 Received: (from grog@localhost) by sydney.worldwide.lemis.com (8.11.1/8.9.3) id f2JC8dR29150; Mon, 19 Mar 2001 20:08:39 +0800 (SGT) (envelope-from grog) Date: Mon, 19 Mar 2001 22:38:39 +1030 From: Greg Lehey To: Bill Moran Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: accessing vinum mirror in single-user mode Message-ID: <20010319223839.F28755@sydney.worldwide.lemis.com> References: <3A5E21A6.69DB82ED@mail.iowna.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0i In-Reply-To: <3A5E21A6.69DB82ED@mail.iowna.com>; from wmoran@mail.iowna.com on Thu, Jan 11, 2001 at 04:12:06PM -0500 Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-418-838-708 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog X-PGP-Fingerprint: 6B 7B C3 8C 61 CD 54 AF 13 24 52 F8 6D A4 95 EF Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thursday, 11 January 2001 at 16:12:06 -0500, Bill Moran wrote: > If I have a system where the /usr partition is a vinum mirror, I've > found that I can't boot into single user mode and use the passwd command > - because I can't mount the vinum partition. > passwd is in /usr/bin so I need to mount the /usr part, but vinum > doesn't start in single-user mode and when I try to start it I get an > error ... (sorry ... have forgotten the error and I don't have a vinum > machine available to reproduce it at this time. If it becomes important, > I'll make it a point to get the exact message) Of course it's important. That's why you haven't got any reply. Take a look at http://www.vinumvm.org/how-to-debug.html if you have difficulties. > Is the upshot of the whole thing that /usr shouldn't be a vinum > volume because of this? No. The upshot of the whole thing is that if you have problems, you should describe them if you want a resolution. > Is there a technique whereby half of a vinum mirror could be > restored to a standard FFS partition? (sounds pretty wild, but I > thought I'd ask.) Yes, if it's concatenated. But that's not the solution. Greg -- When replying to this message, please copy the original recipients. If you don't, I may ignore the reply. For more information, see http://www.lemis.com/questions.html Finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message