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From: anderson@dover.uucp (Howard Anderson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apollo
Subject: Re: forgetting to dmtvol
Message-ID: <105@dover.uucp>
Date: 16 Dec 87 16:31:56 GMT
References: <19338@teknowledge-vaxc.ARPA>
Reply-To: anderson@dover.UUCP (Howard Anderson)
Organization: Motorola CAD Mesa, AZ {dover}
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In article <19338@teknowledge-vaxc.ARPA> mkhaw@teknowledge-vaxc.ARPA (Mike Khaw) writes:
>If you boot a node diskless, mtvol its disk, forget to dmtvol when
>you shutdown, reset, and reboot, what's a safe way to remove the
>object-with-no-attributes in the boot partner's directory left behind
>by the mtvol?
>
The only safe way I know of is to shut the node, bring it up diskless,
mtvol using the pathname of the offending sdir, then dmtvol.  The sdir
will be removed.  Anything else is risky.
-- Howard