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From: Jerry McAllister <jerrymc@clunix.cl.msu.edu>
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Subject: Re: More dump questions
To: jonas@netwood.net (Jonas Fornander)
Date: Wed, 28 Aug 2002 09:33:28 -0400 (EDT)
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In-Reply-To: <002901c24e69$44f6c1f0$0800a8c0@master> from "Jonas Fornander" at Aug 28, 2002 01:02:35 AM
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> 
> 
> I'm trying to dump / and /usr to a second drive.
> 
> The / dumped fine but I run into some problems when I tried to dump
> /usr. 
> After the dump started I was asked the following continuously: 
> <snip>
>   DUMP: Change Volumes: Mount volume #25
>   DUMP: Is the new volume mounted and ready to go?: ("yes" or "no") y
>   DUMP: Volume 25 begins with blocks from inode 7531318
>   DUMP: Closing /bckup/usrdump/usr-20020809.dump
> </snip>
> 
> I stopped the dump at "Mount volume #35". At that time dump had created
> a 40MB file. However /usr is 1.2GB.
> 
> Is it correct that dump should ask all these "Mount volume" questions?
> If so, is there a silent flag? I could not find one in the man pages.

If you are dummpping to  file on another hard disk you probably
should not expect to see any of these messages.  Check out using
the 's' flag on dump - presuming you have room on the partition you
are dumping to to hold everything.

////jerry
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