Late night system administration == trouble on SunOS 4.x
dupuy at cs.columbia.edu
dupuy at cs.columbia.edu
Tue Oct 3 04:32:06 AEST 1989
> From: thomas at shire.cs.psu.edu (Angela Marie Thomas)
> Date: 30 Sep 89 05:33:31 GMT
> X-Sun-Spots-Digest: Volume 8, Issue 148, message 5 of 10
> ... It seems that /sbin has enough programs in it to get you into trouble,
> but not enough to get you out of it. No dump, no restore, no umount. I
> couldn't even sync;sync;halt the system. Oh, mount is there. I could mount
> more newly newfs'd filesystems onto /usr until my face turned blue. I can't
> believe it. It was as if I had just stumbled into a cul-de-sac.
No - not a cul-de-sac. A blind alley, perhaps, especially late at night.
The right thing to do is to mount a valid /usr filesystem (from anywhere,
even nfs) onto any spare directory. Now you have umount, and can umount
/usr and try again.
@alex
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