Partition mounting ...

From: Debbie Tropiano (debbie@icus.com)
Date: Mon Aug 05 2002 - 18:05:45 EDT


Help!! The list SW didn't like my original subject ...
Trying again ...

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> From: Debbie Tropiano <debbie@icus.com>
> Subject: System recovery help needed ...
> To: sunmanagers@sunmanagers.org
> Date: Mon, 5 Aug 2002 17:03:27 -0500 (CDT)
>
> Help!!
>
> One of my "power" users managed to mess up the /var/ld/ld.config
> file on my Solaris 8 system so now we are unable to run any
> dynamically linked executables. I am able to boot single user
> but cannot run mv or rm to fix the problem.
>
> Thus my current plan is to boot from the install CD to single
> user, mount /var and fix things. I've successfully booted from
> the install CD, but now am having difficulties mounting /var.
> I am unsure of the device to use...
>
> My system is a V880 with disks mirrored via disksuite. The /var
> partition is /dev/md/dsk/d8. Can someone help me figure out what
> to mount so that I can remove that file and get my system operational
> again? Alternately if someone can suggest another fix, let me know.
>
> Thanks so much,
> Debbie
> --
> +== Debbie Tropiano == Mommy to Nathan 8/17/95 & ^Sara^ 10/25/00-11/7/00 ==+
> | God shows His opposition to cancer and birth defects, not by |
> | eliminating them or making them happen only to bad people (He |
> | can't do that), but by summoning forth friends and neighbors to |
> | ease the burden and to fill the emptiness. -- Harold S. Kushner |
> +== debbie@icus.com ============= URL http://www.icus.com/personal.html ==+
>

-- 
+== Debbie Tropiano ==  Mommy to Nathan 8/17/95 & ^Sara^ 10/25/00-11/7/00 ==+
|	God shows His opposition to cancer and birth defects, not by        |
|	eliminating them or making them happen only to bad people (He       |
|	can't do that), but by summoning forth friends and neighbors to     |
|	ease the burden and to fill the emptiness.  -- Harold S. Kushner    |
+== debbie@icus.com  =============  URL http://www.icus.com/personal.html ==+
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