WOW, that was fast, in less than 1/2 hour I had more ways to do this then
ever imagine.
Thanks to all those who helped:
Eustace Fernandes
Douglas Palmer [palmer@nyed.uscourts.gov]
gfranczyk@carbomedics.com
Jamie Lawrence
David Stern
John Bradley [john.bradley@sr5.chinalake.navy.mil]
Cooke, Earl R.
Nikos George [nikos@jimmy.harvard.edu]
Kris Briscoe [Kris_Briscoe-P93251@email.mot.com]
jbb [blake.benton@ptech.com]
PCWOOD [paul.wood@pobox.com]
Sean Ward [sdward@uswest.com]
foster@bial1.ucsd.edu
Christopher M. Conway [cmconwa@sandia.gov]
Rick Niziak [rniziak@kappys.med.iacnet.com]
Phil Kao [Phil.Kao@artecon.com]
Here are the two most common responses:
1) Use tar in the following manner
Goto single user mode
mount /dev/dsk/c0t1d0s7 /mnt
cd /
tar cf - ./var | (cd /mnt; tar xpf - )
mv /var /var.old
2)
To do it cleanly, I'd boot up in single user mode, do the mount like you
have done, then do:
cd /mnt
ufsdump 0f - / | ufsrestore if -
At restore prompt, type
add var
then type
extract
when that finishes, type
quit
to exit.
Now, modify the /etc/vfstab to mount the appropriate var partition; I'd
probably rename /var to /var.save, and then mkdir /var. That way you've
got the old in case something weird happened. Then reboot, and you should
be set.
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