From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Mar 11 09:14:55 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id JAA20138 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 11 Mar 1997 09:14:55 -0800 (PST) Received: from wawasee.read.indiana.edu (wawasee.read.indiana.edu [149.159.108.2]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id JAA20132 for ; Tue, 11 Mar 1997 09:14:50 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (xwin@localhost) by wawasee.read.indiana.edu (8.8.4/8.6.12) with SMTP id MAA08742; Tue, 11 Mar 1997 12:14:18 -0500 (EST) X-Authentication-Warning: wawasee.read.indiana.edu: xwin owned process doing -bs Date: Tue, 11 Mar 1997 12:14:18 -0500 (EST) From: Greg Hormann X-Sender: xwin@wawasee.read.indiana.edu To: questions@freebsd.org cc: Jim Riffle Subject: DUMP: missing files. Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk This weekend, while trying to convert a 100M dos partition to swap space on a -current (before Lite/2) machine using the sysinstall method, I destroyed both my / and /usr partitions. No problem! I had just dumped / and /usr to a tape only 3 hours ago. (Or so I though.) After using "restore" to reconstruction the file system, I noticed a few files were missing. Notably, some libraries (and Linux libraries also), the ".pinerc"'s of users who we probably reading their mail at the time, my bookmark.htm file, etc. My question: what happened to those files? After realizing the problem, I check the tape again. I looked in the my home director for .pinerc on the tape, and it was listed there, but when I tried to extract it, it said "/home/ghormann/.pinerc" is not on the tape. Does dump not back up open files? I didn't write to .pinerc (or the libs), during that time, but I did have pine open. How can I prevent this problem in the future? Greg.