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You can still get some information from your dump tapes, and with a couple of educated guesses, you can get the system up and running. There are a couple of ways to proceed. If you have another system, and you have some spare disk space, you can start to gather some information while the hardware guy is replacing the disk drive. On the second system, create a directory on a file system that has at least 15 MB free. You probably won't use that much, but a little extra space never hurts. In a crunch, you could probably get by with 5 MB or less. Let's call the directory /hope (because we hope we can get some information out of this). We are going to use the interactive option to ufsrestore (this option is also in restore under Sun OS, but I will use the Solaris versions here) to extract the vfstab from the dump tape. Use the following commands: # cd /hope # ufsrestore -ivf /dev/rmt/0 Verify volume and initialize maps More messages concerning block size, date of the dump, ...