In the end what I needed to do was to set the mountpoint with: zfs set mountpoint=/tmp/rescue rpool/ROOT/openindiana
it ended up mounting it in /mnt/rpool/tmp/rescue but still, it gave me the access to var/ld/... and after removing the ld.config, doing a zpool export and reboot, my desktop is back. Thanks for the pointers. "man zfs" did mention mountpoint as a valid option, not sure why it didnt work. as for mount -F zfs... it only works on legacy. On 11/29/11, Mike Gerdts <mger...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Tue, Nov 29, 2011 at 4:40 PM, Francois Dion <francois.d...@gmail.com> > wrote: >> It is on openindiana 151a, no separate /var as far as But I'll have to >> test this on solaris11 too when I get a chance. >> >> The problem is that if I >> >> zfs mount -o mountpoint=/tmp/rescue (or whatever) rpool/ROOT/openindiana >> >> i get a cannot mount /mnt/rpool: directory is not empty. >> >> The reason for that is that I had to do a zpool import -R /mnt/rpool >> rpool (or wherever I mount it it doesnt matter) before I could do a >> zfs mount, else I dont have access to the rpool zpool for zfs to do >> its thing. >> >> chicken / egg situation? I miss the old fail safe boot menu... > > You can mount it pretty much anywhere: > > mkdir /tmp/foo > zfs mount -o mountpoint=/tmp/foo ... > > I'm not sure when the temporary mountpoint option (-o mountpoint=...) > came in. If it's not valid syntax then: > > mount -F zfs rpool/ROOT/solaris /tmp/foo > > -- > Mike Gerdts > http://mgerdts.blogspot.com/ > _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
