From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Mar 27 06:57:52 1995 Return-Path: questions-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id GAA11324 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 27 Mar 1995 06:57:52 -0800 Received: from obiwan.pmr.com ([199.98.84.130]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with SMTP id GAA11318 for ; Mon, 27 Mar 1995 06:57:50 -0800 Received: by obiwan.pmr.com (Smail3.1.29.1 #4) id m0rtGE8-00030iC; Mon, 27 Mar 95 08:57 CST Message-Id: From: bob@obiwan.pmr.com (Bob Willcox) Subject: Re: question about dump To: guido@IAEhv.nl (Guido van Rooij) Date: Mon, 27 Mar 1995 08:57:08 -0600 (CST) Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org In-Reply-To: <199503271116.NAA00868@iaehv.IAEhv.nl> from "Guido van Rooij" at Mar 27, 95 01:16:36 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] Content-Type: text Content-Length: 673 Sender: questions-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Guido van Rooij wrote: > > What happens when I do a level 0 dump on a system that is not in single > user mode? More specifically: if files/directories get deleted after > dump has made ist dump table? This is a good question. I do this all the time, but don't really understand the consequences of doing so. (I find it too painful to take my system down to single user mode for the appx. 6 hrs it takes to do the full dump :-() -- Bob Willcox ...!{rutgers|ames}!cs.utexas.edu!uudell!obiwan!bob Austin, TX or: @uudell.us.dell.com:obiwan!bob 512-258-4224 (home), 512-838-3914 (work) or: obiwan%bob@uunet.uu.net