On 2014-06-05, Pieter Verberne <pieterverbe...@xs4all.nl> wrote: >>> /dev/sd0a on /usr type ffs (local) > > I was thinking about a way out if this. I was remote at that moment. > It's funny because the only way out is to pull the power cable. A SSH > session was still up but I was logged in as a regular user. su and sudo > are not working since they are under /usr . Console is not able to > login.
I put wheel users in group operator, too, so they can just run shutdown(8). > Maybe ACPI shutdown would work, Yeah, I was going to say, just hit the power button for a regular shutdown... > but it is a Soerkis. ... but I see the problem. Oh, and I'll reiterate that shadowing a filesystem with another is a valid and occasionally useful usage case. For instance, I regularly run a base system "make build" on one machine, then NFS-mount its /usr/obj over the local one on a sister machine and run "make install" there again. -- Christian "naddy" Weisgerber na...@mips.inka.de