From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Nov 1 07:45:41 1995 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) id HAA19118 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 1 Nov 1995 07:45:41 -0800 Received: from rocky.sri.MT.net (sri.MT.net [204.94.231.129]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) with ESMTP id HAA19111 for ; Wed, 1 Nov 1995 07:45:33 -0800 Received: (from nate@localhost) by rocky.sri.MT.net (8.6.12/8.6.12) id IAA14799; Wed, 1 Nov 1995 08:47:45 -0700 Date: Wed, 1 Nov 1995 08:47:45 -0700 From: Nate Williams Message-Id: <199511011547.IAA14799@rocky.sri.MT.net> To: Brian Litzinger Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: DUMP: short read error from /dev/rsd1f: [block 3440784]: count=8192, got=8191 In-Reply-To: <199511011107.DAA15584@MediaCity.com> References: <199511011107.DAA15584@MediaCity.com> Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk > for some time without incident. Recently I did a dump and got > > DUMP: dumping (Pass IV) [regular files] > DUMP: short read error from /dev/rsd1f: [block 6288]: count=8192, got=8191 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ Umm, why are you reading from the raw device? DUMPs are taken from unmounted block devices. So, you should be doing something like this instead: # dump 0uf /dev/nrst0 /dev/sd0a OR # dump 0uf /dev/nrst0 / The other questions I'll leave for someone else. Nate