From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jan 11 13:16:12 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from clmboh1-smtp3.columbus.rr.com (unknown [65.24.0.112]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E0EBE37B699 for ; Thu, 11 Jan 2001 13:15:53 -0800 (PST) Received: from mail.iowna.com (dhcp065-024-023-038.columbus.rr.com [65.24.23.38]) by clmboh1-smtp3.columbus.rr.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id QAA04003 for ; Thu, 11 Jan 2001 16:13:41 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <3A5E21A6.69DB82ED@mail.iowna.com> Date: Thu, 11 Jan 2001 16:12:06 -0500 From: Bill Moran X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.76 [en] (X11; U; FreeBSD 4.2-STABLE i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: accessing vinum mirror in single-user mode Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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) Is the upshot of the whole thing that /usr shouldn't be a vinum volume because of this? 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.) TIA Bill To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message