From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Nov 1 09:40:34 1995 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) id JAA23047 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 1 Nov 1995 09:40:34 -0800 Received: from who.cdrom.com (who.cdrom.com [192.216.222.3]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) with ESMTP id JAA23037 for ; Wed, 1 Nov 1995 09:40:31 -0800 Received: from rocky.sri.MT.net (sri.MT.net [204.94.231.129]) by who.cdrom.com (8.6.12/8.6.11) with ESMTP id JAA10037 for ; Wed, 1 Nov 1995 09:40:13 -0800 Received: (from nate@localhost) by rocky.sri.MT.net (8.6.12/8.6.12) id KAA14996; Wed, 1 Nov 1995 10:40:01 -0700 Date: Wed, 1 Nov 1995 10:40:01 -0700 From: Nate Williams Message-Id: <199511011740.KAA14996@rocky.sri.MT.net> To: John Capo Cc: nate@rocky.sri.MT.net (Nate Williams), brian@MediaCity.com, questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: DUMP: short read error from /dev/rsd1f: [block 3440784]: count=8192, got=8191 In-Reply-To: <199511011735.MAA14669@irbs.irbs.com> References: <199511011547.IAA14799@rocky.sri.MT.net> <199511011735.MAA14669@irbs.irbs.com> Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk > > > 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. > > That's the way dump does it. Always uses the raw device. > > cleat 2# dump 0f - /dev/sd0a > /dev/null > ^^^^^^^^^ > DUMP: Date of this level 0 dump: Wed Nov 1 12:20:31 1995 > DUMP: Date of last level 0 dump: the epoch > DUMP: Dumping /dev/rsd0a (/) to standard output > ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ Duh, learn something new everyday. :( Sorry for the false alarm. Nate