From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Oct 22 19:01:57 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 07A0E16A4BF for ; Wed, 22 Oct 2003 19:01:57 -0700 (PDT) Received: from avocado.propagation.net (1-247-249-63-rev.propagation.net [63.249.247.1]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9687E43FB1 for ; Wed, 22 Oct 2003 19:01:55 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ryansandridge@ryansandridge.com) Received: from [10.0.1.4] (ee.d9bccf.client.atlantech.net [207.188.217.238]) by avocado.propagation.net (8.9.3p2/8.8.5) with ESMTP id VAA32314 for ; Wed, 22 Oct 2003 21:01:32 -0500 In-Reply-To: <7381BDDB-04D6-11D8-AAFC-003065BBC750@ryansandridge.com> References: <20031022200054.30862.qmail@web41412.mail.yahoo.com> <7381BDDB-04D6-11D8-AAFC-003065BBC750@ryansandridge.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v606) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Message-Id: Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit From: Ryan Sandridge Date: Wed, 22 Oct 2003 22:01:51 -0400 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.606) Subject: Re: strange dump (dark matter?) X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: freebsd@ryansandridge.com List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 23 Oct 2003 02:01:57 -0000 On Oct 22, 2003, at 5:26 PM, Ryan Sandridge wrote: > > On Oct 22, 2003, at 4:00 PM, Dave McCammon wrote: > >> >> >> Where is the file of your first backup stored? >> Did it get backed up as part of the incremental >> backup? > > I should have mentioned that I had checked that already, because that > would almost explain the unaccounted for 507 MB... but unless I'm > missing something, that is not the problem. The backups were made > onto /tmp filesystem, which were then archived to cd-rom, and deleted > from /tmp. Ah, might be onto something though... I made an .iso file > containing the dumps, which was copied to my home directory before > burning to cd. That .iso file sat there until today, but was deleted > before I did today's dump. So, I suppose it is possible that the > filesystem wasn't flushed (is that what its called?), so the file was > still there. I presume, however, this would be a bug with dump, as > that .iso file is NOT in the archive. > > Do you think this is what happened? > > Thanks, > Ryan > Well, as a newbie, it only took me about 10 hours to figure out on my own that I needed to run fsck. It showed me that I had an unreferenced file hiding on my disk; however fsck never seemed to work as documented. I couldn't ever run it with 'fsck -p', I always received (and still do receive): /dev/ad0s1g: NO WRITE ACCESS /dev/ad0s1g: UNEXPECTED INCONSISTENCY; RUN fsck MANUALLY. and when I ran it with just 'fsck', it would always answer "no" to the prompts to fix the problems without giving me an opportunity to fix it. No I didn't use the -n flag to force no responses, and I am aware of the -y flag, but the documentation warns against doing this. Finally I threw my hands up, and rebooted, which seemed to clear up the unreferenced file. -Ryan