SUMMARY: Can SystemV wipe out a fileset?

From: Harvey Rarback 312-702-9931 <RARBACK_at_cars3.uchicago.edu>
Date: Mon, 8 Jan 1996 16:25:06 -0600 (CST)

    Folks,

Earlier I asked:

> the order I did things:
>
> - installed the OS using the AdvFS for the root and usr domains
> - used addvol to add a partition to the usr domain
> - created a fileset /people on the new partition
> - created my home directory on /people
> - installed the System V Environment (*without* the management or printing
> options) giving my login as an account to modify to use the Environment
> - rebooted
>
> After the reboot, although /people was still there, there were no files in the
> fileset! What happened?
 
I didn't put an entry in /etc/fstab, that's what happened. (The necessity of
doing that wasn't obvious to me from the documentation, but I am learning...)

Many thanks to the following for prompt and correct answers:

  Matt Thomas (thomas_at_lkg.dec.com)
  Jim Palfreyman (jim_at_orac.ecc.tased.edu.au)
  Simon Tardell (tardell_at_particle.kth.se)
  Juergen Bock (bock_at_dbf.ddb.de)
  (SSTOBEL10_at_aol.com)
  Julie O'Shaughnessy (jab_at_elmo.pgh.wec.com)
  Vipul (vsp_at_unx.dec.com)

                                   --Harvey
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Received on Mon Jan 08 1996 - 23:50:37 NZDT

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