In one of our previous post “Solaris Troubleshooting (Magic of Solaris 10) – Root Password Recovery for any Solaris 10 (without CD/DVD)”. We tried to show how to recover system’s root password in Failsafe mode without any media for OS having single disk (i.e native device, c#t#d#s#). But if your system is mirrored then you wont be able to recover the same without loading SVM module in failsafe (also with any other media) mode. As your box wont allow you to mount the metadevice. In this post I will try to present the procedure to load SVM module in such cases.

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The following is the proper syntax to exclude traversal of nfs mounts for the find command

# find / -name somefile -print -o -fstype nfs -prune

Or, use the following command to exclude traversal of nfs, autofs and cachefs filesystems:

# find / -name somefile -print -o -fstype nfs -prune -o -fstype autofs -prune -o -fstype cachefs -prune