From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Mar 11 22:18:10 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from bryden.apana.org.au (bryden.apana.org.au [203.3.126.129]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8F58137B718 for ; Sun, 11 Mar 2001 22:18:04 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dougy@bryden.apana.org.au) Received: from roadrunner (roadrunner.apana.org.au [203.3.126.132]) by bryden.apana.org.au (8.11.1/8.11.1) with SMTP id f2C6HUq00564; Mon, 12 Mar 2001 16:17:32 +1000 (EST) (envelope-from dougy@bryden.apana.org.au) Message-ID: <008301c0aabc$443e96e0$847e03cb@apana.org.au> From: "Doug Young" To: Cc: "Michael Conlen" , "Matthew Rudderham" , References: <022501c0aa4d$a96a65e0$0200a8c0@apana.org.au> <20010311172203.K50418@rfx-216-196-73-168.users.reflex> <003b01c0aab4$400553a0$847e03cb@apana.org.au> <20010311215927.P50418@rfx-216-196-73-168.users.reflex> Subject: Re: What Are Standard Procedures For System Backup Date: Mon, 12 Mar 2001 16:18:29 +1000 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4133.2400 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4133.2400 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > A filesystem is a rather basic concept in the operating > system. Anything you use mount(8) to access is going to be a > filesystem. Just type, > > $ mount OK ... so if I'm understand that correctly the /dev/da0s1a /root /dev/da0s1e /usr /dev/da0s1f /var constitute three different "filesystems" ?? I gather that I need to dump each of them individually ... does it matter whether I address the "filesystem" as, for example, "/dev/da0s1a" or alternatively as "/" ?? > > To see your currently mounted filesystems. Anyone one of those which > is a ufs type is a candidate for using dump(8) on. > > If you 'apropos filesystem,' you'll get a lot more info than you > probably need. Just looked at that & agree totally .... looks like martian or something :) > > Manpages are meant to be synopsis stuff for the clued or expert user > to use for quick, brief references. They are not, generally, designed > to be how-to's or tutorials (that's not to say some are not written to > be, vinum(4,8), the Perl pages, shell pages, can be quite > complete). Like you state, freebsddiary, bsdvault, etc. are resources > for tutorials and more real examples. At least some gurus who write documentation have some idea of making the stuff halfway intelligible ... Brian Somers doesn't have that problem & Greg Lehey generally writes intelligibly but many of the others certainly aim only at others of their own level. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message