Filesystem Administration From the Miniroot

Filesystem Administration From the Miniroot

When filesystem modifications or other administrative tasks require that the Root filesystem not be mounted or not be in use, the miniroot environment provided by the software installation tools included on IRIX system software release CDs can be used. When using the miniroot, a limited version of IRIX is installed in the swap partition in a filesystem mounted at /. The system runs this version of IRIX rather than the standard IRIX in the Root and Usr filesystems. The Root and Usr filesystems are available and mounted at /root and /root/usr. Thus the pathnames of all files in the Root and Usr filesystems have the prefix /root.