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From: doofus on 3 Jan 2007 13:11 Good evening folks, For years now we've used a fairly simple backup script to clone system partitions to a storedge multipack that is only ever brought online for this purpose. Occasionally we boot from the mutipack to recover from some mishap and then clone back in the other direction. But now, with a couple of new Solaris 10 builds, this bit of script: foreach SLICE ($LIST) # NEWFS the current slice newfs /dev/rdsk/c2t6d0s${SLICE} <<EOF returns a message along the lines of: "/dev/dsk/c2t6d0s7 is normally mounted on /export/se06 according to /etc/vfstab. Please remove this entry to use this device." Sacrebleu... what have they done now? This is the first time I've ever sat in front of a unix machine and felt control has been taken away from me, even with root access - somewhat akin to the way a windows machine won't let the administrator format a drive with system files on it. Deciding that microsoft's enabling and disabling of services is preferable to thirty-odd years of starting and stopping daemons seems bad enough to me, but I'd concede that's just playing with words. The above situation though, smacks wholeheartedly of microsoft's default "you obviously don't know what you're doing but don't worry, we know what's best for you" attitude. Does anyone have a solution for this problem, short of having to edit a file which as far as I'm concerned has nothing to do with the commands in the script? They haven't even risked giving us an "f" switch in their new child proof utility. Sorry about the rant ;O)
From: Zack on 3 Jan 2007 14:33 > returns a message along the lines of: > > "/dev/dsk/c2t6d0s7 is normally mounted on /export/se06 according to > /etc/vfstab. Please remove this entry to use this device." > > Does anyone have a solution for this problem, Solution: "/dev/dsk/c2t6d0s7 is normally mounted on /export/se06 according to /etc/vfstab. Please remove this entry to use this device."
From: doofus on 3 Jan 2007 16:39 Zack wrote: > > returns a message along the lines of: > > > > "/dev/dsk/c2t6d0s7 is normally mounted on /export/se06 according to > > /etc/vfstab. Please remove this entry to use this device." > > > > > Does anyone have a solution for this problem, > > Solution: > "/dev/dsk/c2t6d0s7 is normally mounted on /export/se06 according to > /etc/vfstab. Please remove this entry to use this device." Well snipped. Many thanks for your time, but I can read, honest. Not so sure about you though: short of having to edit a file which as far as I'm concerned has nothing to do with the commands in the script?
From: James Carlson on 3 Jan 2007 17:15 "doofus" <tumbleweed(a)fastmail.net> writes: > > Solution: > > "/dev/dsk/c2t6d0s7 is normally mounted on /export/se06 according to > > /etc/vfstab. Please remove this entry to use this device." > > > Well snipped. Many thanks for your time, but I can read, honest. Not so > sure about you though: > > short of having to edit a file which as far as I'm concerned has > nothing to do with the commands in the script? Use something like this: # env NOINUSE_CHECK=1 newfs ... -- James Carlson, KISS Network <james.d.carlson(a)sun.com> Sun Microsystems / 1 Network Drive 71.232W Vox +1 781 442 2084 MS UBUR02-212 / Burlington MA 01803-2757 42.496N Fax +1 781 442 1677
From: doofus on 3 Jan 2007 17:23
James Carlson wrote: > "doofus" <tumbleweed(a)fastmail.net> writes: > Use something like this: > > # env NOINUSE_CHECK=1 newfs ... Excellent. Thanks James, I'll give it a go. |