Help sought regarding the disk recovery...

[Sriram Natarajan_1]

Hi,
I very much apologize for this wide distribution.

Well I have a problem with my HP-UX. Since I have never been a admin guy in all
my life I feel like I am totally struck. I will very much appreciate if some
one out there would think of helping me.
This is what had happened with my HP-UX box.
When I was developing a project for a client, one of my programs
accidentally ended up modifying the permissions lists of the root file system.
I was planning to recover from situation but unfortunately we rebooted the
machine and now it won't come up. Needless to say that we haven't done any
backup for quite a long time. So we need to recover our disks.
It just occurred to me that if I can put one of our core disk containing all
our projects onto the other hp-ux machine and mount it over there I might
indeed be able to get our data back. But unfortunately the other machine is
showing this disk as unused. Now I have no clue of what to do next !!!.
Can any one help me...

thanks in advance
sri.

[Paul Hite_2]

If you are running LVM, after you connect the drive to your second computer,
you can run the command "vgimport" to get LVM on the second system to recognize
the drive.

[Jim Donovan_1]

It sounds like you've made the / filesystem inaccessable. Boot your system
into single user mode and run

# chmod 755 /

Hopefully once you do this, you'll be able to bring your system back up.