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On Sun, 30 Mar 1997, Jim Chapman wrote:

> Thanks. Dump works when I use the raw device. The documentation doesn't
> mention this although the examples all show raw devices.

A good rule of thumb is that you will only use the standard block device
when mounting filesystems; otherwise use the raw device.

Doug White                              | University of Oregon  
Internet:  dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu    | Residence Networking Assistant
http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite    | Computer Science Major