From owner-freebsd-current Sat Aug 5 19:01:18 1995 Return-Path: current-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.11/8.6.6) id TAA09686 for current-outgoing; Sat, 5 Aug 1995 19:01:18 -0700 Received: from irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de [141.76.1.11]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.11/8.6.6) with SMTP id TAA09671 for ; Sat, 5 Aug 1995 19:01:16 -0700 Received: from sax.sax.de by irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de with SMTP (5.67b+/DEC-Ultrix/4.3) id AA11183; Sun, 6 Aug 1995 04:01:13 +0200 Received: by sax.sax.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id EAA12130 for current@freebsd.org; Sun, 6 Aug 1995 04:01:12 +0200 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.6.11/8.6.9) id KAA17174 for current@freebsd.org; Fri, 4 Aug 1995 10:23:24 +0200 From: J Wunsch Message-Id: <199508040823.KAA17174@uriah.heep.sax.de> Subject: Re: Backup of 32bit dev entries To: current@freebsd.org Date: Fri, 4 Aug 1995 10:23:23 +0200 (MET DST) Reply-To: current@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <199508031705.TAA00938@vector.eikon.e-technik.tu-muenchen.de> from "Julian Howard Stacey" at Aug 3, 95 07:05:12 pm Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Length: 657 Sender: current-owner@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk As Julian Howard Stacey wrote: > > > I've forgotten what we've got left that still works to make backups > of current /dev entries. I tried these: > find . -print | cpio -o > /tmp/ttt > cpio: sd0 not dumped: device number would be truncated find . | cpio -o -H crc > /tmp/ttt > dump 0f /tmp/ttt . > DUMP: bad sblock magic number The ENTIRE dump is aborted. RTFM. dump can only handle _file systems_, so make this dump 0f /tmp/ttt /usr (Certainly not the best idea to dump it to /tmp however. :) -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)