Lets say you have a DEC Alpha 3000/600 that you've had to re-install from
scratch the DU 3.2c OS because of whatever reason -- ok, say a root disk
crash without tape backups. Furthermore, lets say you had your /home and
/user/local on another disk, and a data file system on yet a 3rd disk.
Now, given that you now have a new / and /usr and have reconfigured it all
like it was (mostly, you hope), and that these file systems on the other
disks were advfs file systems, can you get at them and remount them as they
were without resorting to recreating the file systems with mkfdmn and
mkfset and restoring from tape (which are painfully old)?
I tried manually creating the directories and links in /etc/fdmns, and
entries in /etc/fstab. The disk /dev entries exist. The disklabels are
correct and still have the ftype as ADVfs. Then a 'mount -a' gives for
those file systems: "Device does not contain a valid ADVFS file system"
Is there a way?
-Neil
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Neil R. Smith, Research Assoc./Comp.Sys.Mngr. neils_at_csrp.tamu.edu
Climate System Research Program 409/862-4342
Dept. of Meteorology, Texas A&M Univ., USA 409/862-4132 FAX
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Received on Wed Jan 31 1996 - 18:48:39 NZDT