From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Dec 20 19:46:59 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D7BA3106564A for ; Sat, 20 Dec 2008 19:46:59 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from freebsd-questions-local@be-well.ilk.org) Received: from mail2.sea5.speakeasy.net (mail2.sea5.speakeasy.net [69.17.117.4]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AD38B8FC14 for ; Sat, 20 Dec 2008 19:46:59 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from freebsd-questions-local@be-well.ilk.org) Received: (qmail 9617 invoked from network); 20 Dec 2008 19:46:59 -0000 Received: from dsl092-078-145.bos1.dsl.speakeasy.net (HELO be-well.ilk.org) ([66.92.78.145]) (envelope-sender ) by mail2.sea5.speakeasy.net (qmail-ldap-1.03) with SMTP for ; 20 Dec 2008 19:46:59 -0000 Received: from lowell-desk.lan (lowell-desk.lan [172.30.250.6]) by be-well.ilk.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8E12F50820; Sat, 20 Dec 2008 14:46:54 -0500 (EST) Received: by lowell-desk.lan (Postfix, from userid 1147) id 5498E1CCB6; Sat, 20 Dec 2008 14:46:53 -0500 (EST) To: "Gema niskazhu" References: <84133fac0812170314gc3a8c15vce24229cecfc6eeb@mail.gmail.com> From: Lowell Gilbert Date: Sat, 20 Dec 2008 14:46:53 -0500 In-Reply-To: <84133fac0812170314gc3a8c15vce24229cecfc6eeb@mail.gmail.com> (Gema niskazhu's message of "Wed\, 17 Dec 2008 14\:14\:13 +0300") Message-ID: <44ej02zl1u.fsf@lowell-desk.lan> User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.3 (berkeley-unix) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: dump and soft-updates question X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 20 Dec 2008 19:46:59 -0000 "Gema niskazhu" writes: > Hi! > > I-ve got a question about dump | restore on soft-updates managed slice. > > When we dump smth on soft updates slice where it actualy(mechanicaly) dump > it? The output of the dump is controlled by a command-line switch (-f). In the absence of the switch, it defaults to $RMT, but that is rarely applicable any more. Soft updates do not affect this. > Because I-ve forgot to turn of soft-updates off on my backup hdd and dump > img on it =) That is not an issue. Dumping a live filesystem is, but having soft upates active on the filesystem does not make things significantly worse than they would have been anyway. > After that i vas quet surprised because it ate 16 Gigs of / but du\df cant > show anything about. Can you be more specific? Where were you dumping to? > what is situated in this 16 Gigs. Is it possible that your dump went to /dev/rmt because you failed to supply an alternative destination? -- Lowell Gilbert, embedded/networking software engineer, Boston area http://be-well.ilk.org/~lowell/