From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Apr 22 23:00:11 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5269916A4CE for ; Fri, 22 Apr 2005 23:00:11 +0000 (GMT) Received: from neptune.atopia.net (neptune.atopia.net [209.128.231.90]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0B37D43D49 for ; Fri, 22 Apr 2005 23:00:11 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from dcp1990@neptune.atopia.net) Received: by neptune.atopia.net (Postfix, from userid 1034) id 6EC884139; Fri, 22 Apr 2005 19:00:10 -0400 (EDT) Date: Fri, 22 Apr 2005 19:00:10 -0400 From: Dan Ponte To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20050422230010.GA10266@neptune.atopia.net> Mail-Followup-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org References: <20050422030748.GA64953@neptune.atopia.net> <20050422200525.GG12673@cirb503493.alcatel.com.au> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20050422200525.GG12673@cirb503493.alcatel.com.au> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.8i Subject: Re: dump woes X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 22 Apr 2005 23:00:11 -0000 On Sat, Apr 23, 2005 at 06:05:25AM +1000, Peter Jeremy was witnessed plotting the following conspiracy: > On Thu, 2005-Apr-21 23:07:48 -0400, Dan Ponte wrote: > >I'm having a rather strange predicament with dump(8). First, I tried > >dumping a snapshot to a file within the filesystem being dumped like so: > > > > styx# dump -0u -a -L -C 8 -f /usr/backup/usr.dump /usr > > > >I then let it sit for a while. The filesystem was only 4.1GB, but the > >dump file was growing to almost 12GB! > > Try running fsck on the filesystem. It's possible that there's some > corruption that's confusing dump. > fsck seems to have run successfully. It did say "incorrect block count," but I told it to fix it. However, I am still seeing the negative tape blocks problem. -Dan -- Dan Ponte http://www.theamigan.net/ Comparing information and knowledge is like asking whether the fatness of a pig is more or less green than the designated hitter rule." -- David Guaspari