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Date:      Sat, 15 Jul 1995 04:35:09 -0700 (PDT)
From:      "Rodney W. Grimes" <rgrimes@gndrsh.aac.dev.com>
To:        fn@pain.csrv.uidaho.edu (Faried Nawaz)
Cc:        current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: problems dumping large fs's?
Message-ID:  <199507151135.EAA03316@gndrsh.aac.dev.com>
In-Reply-To: <199507151120.EAA06605@pain.csrv.uidaho.edu> from "Faried Nawaz" at Jul 15, 95 04:20:06 am

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> 
> 
> hi,
> 
> i'm having problems dumping part of my /usr onto tape. 
                              ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> /usr is local, ufs, and on an 850mb ide drive.
> 

dump(8) dumps _complete_ file systems, not parts of them.
You will have to dump /usr, not /usr/local.


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