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Evan_Thompson
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Jul 25, 2018

How do I see the configuration lying on another slot?

Dear all.   Does anyone know the way to see the configuration that is lying on another side slot?   For example, I have 3 slot and default boot slot is HD1.1.   In the situation of being on...
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Simon_Blakely
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Jul 25, 2018

You can mount the var partition for another boot volume:

 ls /dev/mapper/*_var

will show the LVM objects containing var partitions. You can mount the one of those partitions (from HD1.2) as follows ...

 mkdir /mnt/alt_var

 mount -o ro /dev/mapper/vg--db--sda-set.2._var /mnt/alt_var

 ls /mnt/alt_var/local/ucs

You can then copy ucs files from the mounted partition to /shared.

Once you have finished, remember to unmount 

 umount /mnt/alt_var

Of course, you can also mount the /config volume in a similar fashion.

Remember to mount the alternative volume as read-only (-o ro) so you cannot change anything and cause a config issue that may prevent system startup.