From owner-freebsd-current Thu Mar 12 09:15:02 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id JAA18413 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Thu, 12 Mar 1998 09:15:02 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from austin.polstra.com (austin.polstra.com [206.213.73.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id JAA18396 for ; Thu, 12 Mar 1998 09:14:59 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jdp@austin.polstra.com) Received: from austin.polstra.com (jdp@localhost) by austin.polstra.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id JAA08296; Thu, 12 Mar 1998 09:14:38 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jdp) Message-Id: <199803121714.JAA08296@austin.polstra.com> To: ccsanady@friley585.res.iastate.edu Subject: Re: Softupdates code not Prime Time yet. In-Reply-To: <199803121709.LAA00367@friley585.res.iastate.edu> References: <199803121709.LAA00367@friley585.res.iastate.edu> Organization: Polstra & Co., Seattle, WA Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Date: Thu, 12 Mar 1998 09:14:37 -0800 From: John Polstra Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In article <199803121709.LAA00367@friley585.res.iastate.edu>, Chris Csanady wrote: > I would, although my system is unable to do a dump. I have been wondering > for a while why this is, but it seems that dumpon is just plain broken. > It will not work on anything other that the first disk. (no, this is not > specific to cam..) > > This is what happens.. > > $ dumpon /dev/da1s1b > dumpon: sysctl: kern.dumpdev: No space left on device Probably you've added RAM recently. Remember, the dump is the full size of the system RAM, so the dump device has to be at least that large. -- John Polstra jdp@polstra.com John D. Polstra & Co., Inc. Seattle, Washington USA "Self-knowledge is always bad news." -- John Barth To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message