From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Mar 9 17:51:08 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id RAA01179 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Mon, 9 Mar 1998 17:51:08 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from email.nla.gov.au (email.nla.gov.au [192.102.239.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id RAA00941 for ; Mon, 9 Mar 1998 17:50:27 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from yany97@cs.adfa.oz.au) Received: from yinan.nla.gov.au (PC203122.nla.gov.au [203.4.203.122]) by email.nla.gov.au (8.6.12/8.6.12) with SMTP id MAA21394 for ; Tue, 10 Mar 1998 12:36:00 +1100 Message-ID: <3505A42D.F35@cs.adfa.oz.au> Date: Tue, 10 Mar 1998 12:35:57 -0800 From: yyang X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.0 (Win16; I) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: minor number too large Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hi, all I have tried to backup FreeBSD (v2.1.5) using shell script (ie./bin/sh), I got the following error messages : --------- start ---------- /usr/bin/tar: dev/wd0s3: minor number too large; not dumped /usr/bin/tar: dev/rwd0s3: minor number too large; not dumped /usr/bin/tar: dev/wd0s4: minor number too large; not dumped /usr/bin/tar: dev/rwd0s4: minor number too large; not dumped /usr/bin/tar: dev/wd1s3: minor number too large; not dumped /usr/bin/tar: dev/rwd1s3: minor number too large; not dumped /usr/bin/tar: dev/wd1s4: minor number too large; not dumped sr/bin/tar: dev/wd2s4: minor number too large; not dumped /usr/bin/tar: dev/rwd2s4: minor number too large; not dumped /usr/bin/tar: dev/wd3s3: minor number too large; not dumped /usr/bin/tar: dev/rwd3s3: minor number too large; not dumped /usr/bin/tar: dev/wd3s4: minor number too large; not dumped /usr/bin/tar: dev/rwd3s4: minor number too large; not dumped /usr/bin/tar: dev/sd0s3: minor number too large; not dumped /usr/bin/tar: dev/rsd0s3: minor number too large; not dumped /usr/bin/tar: dev/sd0s4: minor number too large; not dumped /usr/bin/tar: dev/rsd0s4: minor number too large; not dumped /usr/bin/tar: dev/rsd0.ctl: minor number too large; not dumped /usr/bin/tar: dev/sd1s3: minor number too large; not dumped /usr/bin/tar: dev/rsd1s3: minor number too large; not dumped /usr/bin/tar: dev/sd1s4: minor number too large; not dumped /usr/bin/tar: dev/rsd1s4: minor number too large; not dumped /usr/bin/tar: dev/rsd1.ctl: minor number too large; not dumped /usr/bin/tar: dev/sd2s3: minor number too large; not dumped /usr/bin/tar: dev/rsd2s3: minor number too large; not dumped /usr/bin/tar: dev/sd2s4: minor number too large; not dumped /usr/bin/tar: dev/rsd2s4: minor number too large; not dumped /usr/bin/tar: dev/rsd2.ctl: minor number too large; not dumped /usr/bin/tar: dev/sd3s3: minor number too large; not dumped /usr/bin/tar: dev/rsd3s3: minor number too large; not dumped /usr/bin/tar: dev/sd3s4: minor number too large; not dumped ---------- end ----------- Any suggestions ? Yinan To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message