Hi, I have a situation on a remote live router where /dev/ad0s1a partition(in FreeBSD terminology) on CF is larger than /dev/ad1s1a partition on HDD. In addition /dev/ad0s1e partition is larger than /dev/ad1s1e. This means that I'm not able to create a snapshot to alternative media. What I need to do is "request system snapshot partition", but this is not possible because /dev/ad1s1f is mounted on /var. I could unmount the /var, but then the mgd is killed which means that I can't execute "request system snapshot partition". Best method I could come up with is to change the value of kern.geom.debugflags temporarily from 0x0 to 0x10(sysctl kern.geom.debugflags=0x10) in order to allow writes to MBR, wipe the MBR(dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/ad1 bs=512 count=1) and then reload the router(reboot). During the boot it will mount emergency /var to memory file-system and one is able to execute "request system snapshot partition". Then again router needs to be reloaded so that /dev/ad1s1f is mounted under /var and swap space is used. This last step can be done using mount and swapon as well.
However, is there some quicker or even non service-affective way to solve this problem? thanks, Martin _______________________________________________ juniper-nsp mailing list juniper-nsp@puck.nether.net https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/juniper-nsp