Thanks to everyone that replied:
Oisin McGuinness [oisin_at_sbcm.com] gets the grand prize of... administer
yourself a big pat on the back.
My original ? was:
I'm an idiot for not knowing this :-) But, how do I mount an already
mounted read-only ufs file system as read/write? Such as when restoring a
kernel from a backup having booted from tru64 install CD. when you do a #
mount /dev/rz0a /
you get
/ - device is busy or /dev/rz0a is mounted read-only
# mount -w -u /dev/rz0a /
gives same result.
Answer:
the answer is to create a directory in /tmp on which to mount the drive (in
my case it was rz0a)
# cd /dev/
# ./MAKEDEV rz0
# fsck rz0a
*/ here's where the trouble started /*
# mount /dev/rz0a / <-- clearly wrong ( / is the CDROM disk which can only
be mounted read-only)
*/ solution /*
# mkdir /tmp/mnt1
# mount /dev/rz0a /tmp/mnt1
then copy from one drive (already mounted on /mnt) to the other to fix the
system
Thanks again!
Received on Mon Jun 25 2001 - 21:47:01 NZST