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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