From owner-freebsd-current Mon Jul 17 01:49:57 1995 Return-Path: current-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id BAA14959 for current-outgoing; Mon, 17 Jul 1995 01:49:57 -0700 Received: from ibp.ibp.fr (ibp.ibp.fr [132.227.60.30]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with ESMTP id BAA14947 for ; Mon, 17 Jul 1995 01:49:52 -0700 Received: from blaise.ibp.fr (blaise.ibp.fr [132.227.60.1]) by ibp.ibp.fr (8.6.12/jtpda-5.0) with ESMTP id KAA00624 ; Mon, 17 Jul 1995 10:49:39 +0200 Received: from (roberto@localhost) by blaise.ibp.fr (8.6.12/jtpda-5.0) id KAA22905 ; Sun, 16 Jul 1995 10:44:20 +0200 From: roberto@blaise.ibp.fr (Ollivier Robert) Message-Id: <199507160844.KAA22905@blaise.ibp.fr> Subject: Re: problems dumping large fs's? To: fn@pain.csrv.uidaho.edu (Faried Nawaz) Date: Sun, 16 Jul 1995 10:44:20 +0200 (MET DST) Cc: current@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <199507151120.EAA06605@pain.csrv.uidaho.edu> from "Faried Nawaz" at Jul 15, 95 04:20:06 am X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 2.2-CURRENT ctm#880 X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] Content-Type: text Content-Length: 814 Sender: current-owner@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk > if i try to dump /usr/local, i get > > big-brother# dump 0uf /dev/nrst0 /usr/local > DUMP: Date of this level 0 dump: Sat Jul 15 04:02:37 1995 > DUMP: Date of last level 0 dump: the epoch > DUMP: Dumping /usr/local to /dev/nrst0 > DUMP: bad sblock magic number > DUMP: The ENTIRE dump is aborted. > big-brother# > > is this a known problem? this is the first time i've tried dump, btw. > tar and pax appear to operate without problems on /usr. It is not a bug it is a feature :-) dump can only dump full filesystems, not subtree of it. Your physical partition is /usr so you should dump /usr. /usr/local is not a valid file- system so it has no superblock. -- Ollivier ROBERT -=- The daemon is FREE! -=- roberto@FreeBSD.ORG FreeBSD 2.2-CURRENT #5: Fri Jul 14 12:28:04 MET DST 1995