The original question is enclosed below. Many thanks to both Pat
O'Brien and Dr. Thomas Blinn who both explain that I need to use
rmfdmn to remove the domain, make a new domain with mkfdmn using
one of the "good" volumes, mkfset usr and var, mount them and then
restore.
I will try that.
>
> I rebooted a DEC 3000 Model 800S AXP with 4.0f pk#7 and one of the
> disks gave a hard error. I am pretty sure that it is gone. I have
> an advfs domain main up of volumes rz2g (~1GB), rz3c (4.1GB) and rz8c
> (an old RZ58 which I guess is ~1.3GGB) and it is the rz58 which is
> apparently dead. This advfs domain contains the filesets usr, var,
> users and local mounted as /usr, /var, /users0 and /usr/local. I
> can boot to single-user.
>
> My question is, is there some way from the single-user level to
> reconstruct the domain so that it only uses the two good volumes, rz2g
> and rz3c and then somehow restore at least /var, /usr and /usr/local
> from backup? (I don't know if /users0 will fit, but I don't nned it.)
> What happens if I just rm /etc/fdmns/cpa/rz8c, edit /etc/fstab to
> mount only /var and /usr and reboot? Will I then be able to restore?
>
> TIA,
> Peter Stern
>
>
>
Received on Mon Jul 15 2002 - 15:51:06 NZST