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From: Warren Block <wblock@wonkity.com>
To: eras mus <erasmu@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: restoresymtable after dump and restore
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On Wed, 22 Jan 2014, eras mus wrote:

> Dear list,
>
> Thank you for the help.
> My new hard disk is working fine after the dump and restore
> operation.And able to boot with new disk.
> But in my /home  folder i have a restoresymtable of size 33968468
> and that partition is 101% full.
>
> Does this file(restoresymtable) has any significance?
> Could i remove it by rm -rf ?
> Will removing of the file cause any harm?

Removing it is fine, see:
   man restore | less -p restoresymtable