Date: Wed, 14 Aug 1996 12:53:57 -0500 (CDT) From: Joe Greco <jgreco@brasil.moneng.mei.com> To: terry@lambert.org (Terry Lambert) Cc: jgreco@brasil.moneng.mei.com, terry@lambert.org, ulf@lamb.net, jkh@time.cdrom.com, hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Nightmare. Message-ID: <199608141753.MAA12315@brasil.moneng.mei.com> In-Reply-To: <199608141744.KAA29411@phaeton.artisoft.com> from "Terry Lambert" at Aug 14, 96 10:44:14 am
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> > I am thinking specifically of using dump,dd,etc to read a mounted file > > system for some useful purpose. > > Doesn't dump take the mount point name, not the device, as an argument? > > It doesn't document which device it needs in the man page very well, but > the exmaple clear shows "/usr/src" as the "[filesystem]" reference. dump works either way. The manual is poor. :-) Some things, including amanda, require this to work. dd, incidentally, doesn't take a mount point name as an argument (well it may, but it doesn't do what you would expect to happen when you use the device name). ... JG
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