Hello y'all. A lovely dat it is.

I kinda of need a good understanding of these "/a " in solaris 10. Would appreciate it if someone could give a detailed. Explaination of its uses.cause I can't seem to find it amongst the list of file system. I well know that it is always a mounting point when in single user mode. So I would like to know what exactly its uses are and a good or brief explaination of it. My distribution is solaris 10 x86


Kind regards

Just a thing. Example from http://www.sunsolarisadmin.com/gener...n-solaris-x86/

"When you boot from the CD, select the option for the Sigle-user mode (Option 6 on Solaris 10 CD)

This will look for the currently installed Solaris OS on your system and prompts a Yes/No question to mount the Root filesystem as a Read/Write file system onto /a.

Select yes to mount the root file system (/dev/dsk/c0t0d0s0 here) on /a. If you select No, no harm as you still can mount it manually using:

solaris# mount /dev/dsk/c0t0d0s0 /a

NOTE: /a is a temporary mount point that is available when you boot from CD or a JumpStart server

Now, with the root file system mounted on /a. All you need to do is to edit the shadow file and remove the encrypted password for root.

solaris# vi /a/etc/shadow

Now, exit the mounted filesysten, unmount the root filesystem and reboot the system to single-user mode booting of the disk.

solaris# cd /

solaris# umount /a

solaris# init s

This should boot of the disk and take you to the single-user mode. Press enter at the prompt to enter a password for root"