From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jan 23 15:53:30 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from scaup.prod.itd.earthlink.net (scaup.mail.pas.earthlink.net [207.217.120.49]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4B5B337B400 for ; Wed, 23 Jan 2002 15:53:21 -0800 (PST) Received: from dialup-209.244.107.7.dial1.sanjose1.level3.net ([209.244.107.7] helo=blossom.cjclark.org) by scaup.prod.itd.earthlink.net with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1) id 16TXCg-0005oV-00; Wed, 23 Jan 2002 15:53:20 -0800 Received: (from cjc@localhost) by blossom.cjclark.org (8.11.6/8.11.3) id g0NNrFR87656; Wed, 23 Jan 2002 15:53:15 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from cjc) Date: Wed, 23 Jan 2002 15:53:15 -0800 From: "Crist J . Clark" To: bind9 Cc: Bob Hall , FreeBSD Subject: Re: The tower of Hanoi Message-ID: <20020123155315.K83184@blossom.cjclark.org> Reply-To: cjclark@alum.mit.edu References: <20020122160345.I77330@blossom.cjclark.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: ; from bind9@citystamp.com on Wed, Jan 23, 2002 at 10:27:57AM -0500 X-URL: http://people.freebsd.org/~cjc/ 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 On Wed, Jan 23, 2002 at 10:27:57AM -0500, bind9 wrote: > on 1/22/02 7:03 PM, Crist J . Clark at cristjc@earthlink.net wrote: [snip] > > Like dump(8) says, > > > > dump [-0123456789acknu] [-B records] [-b blocksize] [-D dumpdates] > > [-d density] [-f file] [-h level] [-s feet] [-T date] filesystem > > Ok. So I guess what I need is a quick lesson in "filesystem". Does that mean > equate more to a mount point. On my system, /usr is a mount point for a disk > device. /usr/local is a directory. Then you can't dump /usr/local, it's not a filesystem. A "filesystem" is either the name of the device holding the filesystem or the mount point of the filesystem. It's any of the paths that shows up when you type, 'mount -t ufs'. -- Crist J. Clark | cjclark@alum.mit.edu | cjclark@jhu.edu http://people.freebsd.org/~cjc/ | cjc@freebsd.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message