From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jul 9 14:09:31 2003 Return-Path: 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 C935837B404 for ; Wed, 9 Jul 2003 14:09:31 -0700 (PDT) Received: from asarian-host.net (mail.asarian-host.net [194.109.160.70]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0EE4343FA3 for ; Wed, 9 Jul 2003 14:09:30 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from admin@asarian-host.net) Comments: To protect the identity of the sender, certain header fields are either not shown, or masked. Anonymous email accounts can be requested by filling in the appropriate form at: https://asarian-host.net/cgi-bin/signup.cgi Received: (from root@localhost) by mail.asarian-host.net (8.12.9/8.12.9) id h69L9SjG071134 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Wed, 9 Jul 2003 23:09:28 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from admin@asarian-host.net) From: Mark Message-Id: <200307092109.H69L9RNV071125@asarian-host.net> Date: Wed, 09 Jul 2003 21:09:27 GMT X-Authenticated-Sender: admin@asarian-host.net X-Trace: vuAFvOCocaL9VCaNrUPlIrBqUeyqqUlK1/H9w/3HoV4k80Kgc7WjhSNbbj5zJORfa7dC/Kw1YlBtP+AAvW9Msg== X-Complaints-To: abuse@asarian-host.net X-Abuse-Info: Please be sure to forward a copy of ALL headers X-Abuse-Info: Otherwise we are unable to process your complaint Organization: Asarian-host To: "Dick Hoogendijk" , "freebsd-questions" References: <20030709210220.GA422@pooh.nagual.st> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1165 X-Auth: Asarian-host PGP signature iQEVAwUAPwyEhzFqW1BleBN9AQGFhQf/S+mCoxq9Fh+Zti7/kZU1ev4q3jTsSosR 78QsYW4k4oC2E5raXmZZzZENaoaYPUAUIZle1k5Xh4d7aRqPHhl0unNzVZsUnLeB faeUjwMwnZjtMIZiv2f0edxAzy0I3m2eiT25B2Wd0JAu4qGS/FPLALU/voewxKGE y83OGRbMwoo+Lcaxik7MltjfwaZBc7zMQBFxLLueCLBAM/YQW+3UycCU0piRHh/U 96nvoxqd775ft8faFcaDnmEDHqSWat96Z27iZRAd7aCoIoV252YNuOEESBMmxAsX rvx/Pty1w/cSZJoUCv0gw+32m23cnzBEjrW4qIWnv8AZB1ugZ/o+xw== =d4E7 Subject: Re: restoresymtable X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 09 Jul 2003 21:09:32 -0000 ----- Original Message ----- From: "Dick Hoogendijk" To: "freebsd-questions" 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