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From: Jerry McAllister <jerrymc@clunix.cl.msu.edu>
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Subject: Re: More dump questions
To: jerrymc@clunix.cl.msu.edu (Jerry McAllister)
Date: Wed, 28 Aug 2002 10:02:51 -0400 (EDT)
Cc: jonas@netwood.net (Jonas Fornander),
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In-Reply-To: <200208281333.g7SDXT321216@clunix.cl.msu.edu> from "Jerry McAllister" at Aug 28, 2002 09:33:28 AM
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Oooopppps, typo!!!

> > 
> > 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.

Sorry, that should have said check out the 'a' flag called "auto-size"
in dump which allows it to run until the end without calculating
media size.   
////jerry

> 
> ////jerry
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