SUMMARY - vold on Solaris 2.5.1

Derek Eichele (Derek_Eichele@aimfunds.com)
Mon, 29 Sep 1997 11:42:41 -0500


Apparently I have a little to learn about vold.

I received several good suggestions from:

eeagnc@epa.ericsson.se
stuart@cs.adelaide.edu.au
rich@brake.demon.co.uk
dellis@frycomm.com
vogelke@c17mis.region2.wpafb.af.mil
reineman1@llnl.gov

I tried all of their suggestions, which pertained to verifying
the correctness of my conf files, restarting vold, even performing
a "boot -r". All excellent suggestions, but the answer I was looking
for came from:

Glenn.Satchell@uniq.com.au

who suggested that I verify that the contents of the floppy actually
HAD a filesystem on it. He stated that floppies that had been
formatted and then just 'tar'ed on to would not mount the way a
floppy with a filesystem would. As it turns out this is exactly
what is happening. I didn't know I had been supplied a floppy with
a tar file on it, but I was also unaware of this behavior of vold,
although it makes perfect sense.

Thanks to everyone who offered their suggestions.

Derek Eichele
AIM Management Group, Inc.