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From: Chris Hill <chris@monochrome.org>
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On Sat, 12 Jun 2010, Giorgos Tsiapaliokas wrote:

> only /home is in a diferent partition,but i don't care because i don't 
> have any file in it (only .xinitrc,but this is not a prob)
>
> i give as a root the command "dump -0Lauf /mnt/hd/FBSD/ /dev/ad0s3a"
>
> but i receive the following error:
>
>  DUMP: Date of this level 0 dump: Sat Jun 12 01:39:31 2010
>  DUMP: Date of last level 0 dump: the epoch
>  DUMP: Dumping snapshot of /dev/ad0s3a (/) to /mnt/hd/FBSD/
>  DUMP: mapping (Pass I) [regular files]
>  DUMP: mapping (Pass II) [directories]
>  DUMP: estimated 6843871 tape blocks.
>  DUMP: Cannot open output "/mnt/hd/FBSD/".
>  DUMP: Do you want to retry the open?: ("yes" or "no")
>
> i tried to reopen the output but it had no effect.

Is there a filesystem at /mnt/hd/FBSD/? Please show us the output of the 
df command.

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Chris Hill               chris@monochrome.org
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