Original message - > I am writing here because I had a peculiar situation and due to > time constraints did not have time to write before. Basically the > situation is that trying to unlink a file in /usr/lib, I accidentally > unlink /usr/lib. This wouldn't be such a bad thing if it wasn't a disk > that was mirrored. Needless to say I couldn't copy /usr/lib from cd > because it deleted it everytime I rebooted. I even tried editing the > vfstab to not boot mirrors. No luck. I tried copying /usr/lib to both > disk and mirror. With no success. So I had to re-install the whole > machine from scratch. Luckily for me it was my mail and news server. My > question is, was there a way for me to be able to restore /usr/lib dir > without having to re-install the whole thing ? Probably a command or > something I could've used off the cdrom to make it not look for mirrors > ? And then boot it up and re-create the mirrors ? Answers - (a)You have to break the mirror first, then restore /usr/lib on one disk, reboot, and _then_ re-establish the mirror so /usr/lib gets copied to the mirror disk. (b) Boot off a cd-rom and restore /usr/lib from backup (assuming one was taken) I thank you all for responding. Gary _______________________________________________ sunmanagers mailing list sunmanagers@sunmanagers.org http://www.sunmanagers.org/mailman/listinfo/sunmanagersReceived on Fri Aug 22 13:06:49 2003
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