From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Feb 14 22:46:46 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7B4A816A420 for ; Tue, 14 Feb 2006 22:46:46 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from freebsd-questions-local@be-well.ilk.org) Received: from mail8.sea5.speakeasy.net (mail8.sea5.speakeasy.net [69.17.117.10]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1250B43D75 for ; Tue, 14 Feb 2006 22:46:37 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from freebsd-questions-local@be-well.ilk.org) Received: (qmail 346 invoked from network); 14 Feb 2006 22:46:37 -0000 Received: from dsl092-078-145.bos1.dsl.speakeasy.net (HELO be-well.ilk.org) ([66.92.78.145]) (envelope-sender ) by mail8.sea5.speakeasy.net (qmail-ldap-1.03) with SMTP for ; 14 Feb 2006 22:46:37 -0000 Received: by be-well.ilk.org (Postfix, from userid 1147) id 1A44A28439; Tue, 14 Feb 2006 17:46:36 -0500 (EST) Sender: lowell@be-well.ilk.org To: Joe Auty References: <1CFD830B-2CAC-44A9-9120-6CF351FD3EB9@netmusician.org> <443bimav7o.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> <039BD206-0592-4F99-BE9B-CB49310E5BDC@netmusician.org> From: Lowell Gilbert Date: 14 Feb 2006 17:46:35 -0500 In-Reply-To: <039BD206-0592-4F99-BE9B-CB49310E5BDC@netmusician.org> Message-ID: <44oe19ftis.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> Lines: 54 User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.3 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: core dump with dump command in single user mode X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 14 Feb 2006 22:46:46 -0000 Joe Auty writes: > On Feb 14, 2006, at 9:08 AM, Lowell Gilbert wrote: > > > Joe Auty writes: > > > >> Hello, > >> > >> Following the instructions here: http://www.unixcities.com/howto/ > >> index.html I did a: > >> > > Those directions are a little outdated, but the problem is really just > > that you didn't follow the directions closely enough: > > > >> dump -0f - /usr | restore -rf - /backup/usr > > > > should have been more like > > > > dump -0f - /usr | (cd /backup/usr;restore -xf - ) > > > Okay, I'm still getting: > > > no space left in string table > abort? > > If I say "n", it just core dumps.... Funny, I can't find that message in the source for dump at all. The message, in -STABLE, is "Do you want to abort dump?". I also can't seem to find the string table error message, but I may just have failed to search the right library so far. Are you running something before 5.2? > Any other suggestions? Plenty. If there are no special files (fifos, etc.) on the disk, any archiver will do it. e.g., tar(1) > Would using "dd" be a valid workaround to > cloning my disk? Sure. If you really want a *clone* of the disk, it's a good option. If having the same data files in the same filestructure would do, then copying other attributes is overkill. > My disk is over a 100 gigabytes, could this be what > is causing dump to crap out? Could be. Check your memory statistics while you're doing it, and see if you run out of VM.