From: Paul Crittenden (crittend@storm.simpson.edu)
Date: Wed Jun 12 2002 - 16:35:28 EDT
Hello all,
I will try to explain this so it make sense but feel free to email me for
clarification if it doesn't.
I have a test system on which I am running Tru64-Unix v5.1, patch kit 3. I
was testing some stuff on it and got it screwed up and decided to restore
from a clean back up I did about a month ago, which I made for just such a
purpose. The restore went fine until I got to var. var is part of /usr but
not a separate file system even though there is a mount command in my
/etc/fstab file. There is no corresponding fdmns files in /etc/fdmns for it
however so I don't know how it was setup when I installed the operating
system from scratch.
When you did a df prior to my restore I got a listing for /var with the
same file system size as /usr. When I did the restore this stuff didn't
seem to get resetup even though I would have thought the restore should
have. In order to restore /var I have to make a var directory in /usr and
make a link to it in /. That seemed to have worked and the system is up and
running and appears to be fine.
I would like to know how to get the /var mount back and why it didn't come
back when I did the restore.
Also, I notice that when the system boots at one point it complains that
/var is not mounted but the system boots and runs fine.
Any help would be appreciated.
Paul Crittenden
Computer System Manager
Simpson College
email: crittend@simpson.edu
Phone: (515)961-1680
"You don't have to attend every argument you're invited to."
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