From: Paul Crittenden (crittend@storm.simpson.edu)
Date: Thu Jun 13 2002 - 11:30:17 EDT
Thanks to:
Dan Harrington, Bob Harris, alan@nabeth, Peter Gergen, Bluejay Adametz,
Darryl Cook, Pat O'Brien.
Bob Harris sent the best explanation and fix and here it is.
Most likely, the /var was a 2nd fileset in the usr_domain domain. They
show the same total size and free space information because they share
the storage in the same domain.
These are the commands (or something that looks sort-of like this) that
should have been used _BEFORE_ you started the restore.
mkfdmn /dev/disk/dskXX usr_domain
mkfset usr_domain usr
mkfset usr_domain var
mount usr_domain#usr /usr
mount usr_domain#var /var
However, now that you have already restored /usr, you can create the
/var by just doing the mkfset for var
mkfset usr_domain var
mount usr_domain#var /var
Of course, before you do that you would need to remove the symbolic
link you put in as /var that points to /usr, but that should not be a
problem.
Now you can either copy over the stuff from /var/usr to the newly
mounted /var fileset, or you can do the restore again from your backup.
Also typically in a situation like this, the /usr/var name is a symbolic
link of the form:
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root system 6 Sep 15 2000 /usr/var -> ../var/
So you might also want to recreate that as well.
Original Question:
>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.
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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