Date: Mon, 20 Dec 1999 17:02:36 -0500 (EST) From: Brian Anderson <bunicula@rcn.com> To: Mark Hartley <mark@whetstonelogic.com> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: dumping an msdos filesystem Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.21.9912201701000.8630-100000@charon.diabolis.net> In-Reply-To: <XFMail.991220134730.mark@whetstonelogic.com>
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I was under the impression that dump reads UFS directly, rahter than going through the normal process to access data that mv/cp/etc would use. If I'm correct, that would mean dump could only work on UFS partitions. I'm not very experienced in FreeBSD, so I could be wrong though... Brian On Mon, 20 Dec 1999, Mark Hartley wrote: > I use dump to back up my hard drive, and it works well, except that I > am unable to get it to back up the msdos filesystem (Win95 - FAT 16) > that is also on the hard drive. > > When I try to do the dump command: > > dump -0uaf /dev/nrsa0 /dosc > > I get the error: > > DUMP: Dumping /dev/rwd0s1 (/dosc) to /dev/nrsa0 > DUMP: bad sblock magic number > > and then it dies. > > > Is there a switch, or something I can use to enable backing up my > msdos partition? I've looked in the dump manpages, and searched the > mailing list, but I've found nothing. > > > I can access the drive using the /dosc mountpoint to copy/move/delete > files, so I know the partition is mounted properly. > > > Thanks. > > Mark. > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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