From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Oct 21 20:33:34 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.rdc2.on.home.com (ha1.rdc2.on.home.com [24.9.0.15]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9C5A615010 for ; Thu, 21 Oct 1999 20:33:31 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from street@iname.com) Received: from mired.eh.local ([24.64.136.188]) by mail.rdc2.on.home.com (InterMail v4.01.01.07 201-229-111-110) with ESMTP id <19991022033330.VQOD29865.mail.rdc2.on.home.com@mired.eh.local>; Thu, 21 Oct 1999 20:33:30 -0700 Received: (from kws@localhost) by mired.eh.local (8.9.3/8.9.3) id XAA09579; Thu, 21 Oct 1999 23:33:24 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from kws) To: Jim Manley Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Problems with 'dump' References: <4.1.19991021220124.0097a2e0@mail.metronet.com> From: Kevin Street Date: 21 Oct 1999 23:33:24 -0400 In-Reply-To: Jim Manley's message of "Thu, 21 Oct 1999 22:13:16 -0500" Message-ID: <87g0z4xe63.fsf@mired.eh.local> Lines: 18 X-Mailer: Gnus v5.6.45/XEmacs 21.1 - "20 Minutes to Nikko" Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Jim Manley writes: > I am having a problem with the 'dump' command. Here's an example output: > > darkstar# dump -0u -f /dev/nrsa0 /usr/src > DUMP: Date of this level 0 dump: Thu Oct 21 21:58:18 1999 > DUMP: Date of last level 0 dump: the epoch > DUMP: Dumping /usr/src to /dev/nrsa0 > DUMP: bad sblock magic number > DUMP: The ENTIRE dump is aborted. > darkstar# dump works only on filesystems. /usr/src is probably a sub-directory not the root of a filesystem. -- Kevin Street street@iname.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message