From: Aravind Vinnakota (aravind@csee.wvu.edu)
Date: Mon Apr 21 2003 - 20:13:44 EDT
Hi all,
I have a solaris 2.6 Ultra Enterprise 2 box with a couple of internal
disks and an external disk set. As /var keeps growing, I decided to make
use of the external disks. I raided and created file system and mounted
the meta device on /space. Now I created a directory called var on
/space and copied all the contents of /var onto /space/var in single
user mode. Renamed /var to /var.old and made a soft link from /space/var
to var on /. But for some reason when I reboot the machine after these
changes I get the following error:
INIT: Cannot create /var/adm/utmp or
/var/adm/utmpx INIT: failed write of utmpx entry:" " INIT: failed write of utmpx entry:" " INIT: SINGLE USER MODE Type Ctrl-d to proceed with normal startup,
(or give root password for system maintenance):
I double checked to make sure that /space has rw permissions, I used the
-p option to copy with permissions but still I am unable to understand
why the system is unable to access the var link on /. Any idea where I
am making a mistake? Any suggestions? I will summarize the solution. I
am able to boot once I revert back to the inital settings without any
fsck problems.
thanks,
Aravind
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