On 04/11/06 15:25, James Dickens wrote:
On 4/11/06, Dennis Clarke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
[snip]
Do we need vipw to safely edit the /etc/passwd file ?
YES!!! absolutely, people make mistakes, and no one wants to go down
to the datacenter or even the basement, and boot the system with an
emergency disk or install disk to fix broken passwd files.
You want zfs root: take a snapshot before you do anything potentially
dangerous.
$ zfs list
NAME USED AVAIL REFER MOUNTPOINT
tank 2.78G 16.0G 9K /tank
tank/rootfs 2.78G 16.0G 2.77G legacy
tank/[EMAIL PROTECTED] 1.29M - 2.77G -
$ df -h /
Filesystem size used avail capacity Mounted on
tank/rootfs 19G 2.8G 16G 15% /
Gavin
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