Date: Wed, 09 Jul 2003 21:09:27 GMT From: Mark <admin@asarian-host.net> To: "Dick Hoogendijk" <dick@nagual.st>, "freebsd-questions" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: restoresymtable Message-ID: <200307092109.H69L9RNV071125@asarian-host.net> References: <20030709210220.GA422@pooh.nagual.st>
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----- Original Message ----- From: "Dick Hoogendijk" <dick@nagual.st> To: "freebsd-questions" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Sent: Wednesday, July 09, 2003 11:03 PM Subject: restoresymtable > Inspecting the /usr directory I came across a >10MB file > called "restoresymtable" > > Anybody got some idea where this came from? > Can I safely delete it? > How could it be created in the first place? It was created by the "restore" program (recently restored a partion backed up with "dump"?). >From the ever useful "man restore": "Note that restore leaves a file restoresymtable in the root directory to pass information between incremental restore passes. This file should be removed when the last incremental has been restored." - Mark
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