From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Aug 15 7:59: 5 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail01.redcentre.net (mail01.redcentre.net [203.43.52.131]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8D5A837B403 for ; Wed, 15 Aug 2001 07:58:56 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from marcus@redcentre.com) Received: from ws1 (ws1.redcentre.net [203.43.52.134]) by mail01.redcentre.net (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id AAA15338 for ; Thu, 16 Aug 2001 00:58:53 +1000 (EST) (envelope-from marcus@redcentre.com) From: marcus@redcentre.com To: questions@freebsd.org Date: Thu, 16 Aug 2001 00:58:53 +1000 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/enriched; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Subject: Re: Problems with dump Message-ID: <3B7B1ACD.11274.6584E3E@localhost> In-reply-to: <3B7B1A80.2072.65722EC@localhost> References: <15226.27270.524939.904315@guru.mired.org> X-mailer: Pegasus Mail for Win32 (v3.12c) Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Mike, - tried fsck'ing in single user mode also tried dumping - same result... Marcus 7F00,0000,0000> > What's going on is that you're not providing enough information. For > > instance - what's the dump command you used to start this? > the command was: > > dump 0f - /dev/da0s1g > /dev/null That's about as simple as it gets. The only things I can think of are 1) /usr is fried in some way, or 2) something is writing on /usr and confusing dump. Try unmounting and fsck'ing /usr, then dumping it while it isn't mounted. If you're already doing that, then I'm out of ideas. < http://www.mired.org/home/mwm/ Independent WWW/Perforce/FreeBSD/Unix consultant, email for more information. Unix Systems Administrator +61 3 9873 0155 +61 3 9720 7467 (fax) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message