From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Mar 14 08:00:19 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id IAA14651 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 14 Mar 1996 08:00:19 -0800 (PST) Received: from cabri.obs-besancon.fr (cabri.obs-besancon.fr [193.52.184.3]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id IAA14642 for ; Thu, 14 Mar 1996 08:00:12 -0800 (PST) Received: by cabri.obs-besancon.fr (5.57/Ultrix3.0-C) id AA00321; Thu, 14 Mar 96 17:00:59 +0100 Date: Thu, 14 Mar 96 17:00:59 +0100 Message-Id: <9603141600.AA00321@cabri.obs-besancon.fr> From: Jean-Marc Zucconi To: jmz@cabri.obs-besancon.fr Cc: questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <9603130954.AA21372@cabri.obs-besancon.fr> (message from Jean-Marc Zucconi on Wed, 13 Mar 96 10:54:56 +0100) Subject: Re: Dump error (bad sblock magic number) X-Mailer: Emacs Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk >>>>> Jean-Marc Zucconi writes: > What do this means? > bash# dump 0ufbB /dev/nrst0 32 2000000 /u3 > DUMP: Date of this level 0 dump: Wed Mar 13 10:42:22 1996 > DUMP: Date of last level 0 dump: the epoch > DUMP: Dumping /u3 to /dev/null > DUMP: bad sblock magic number > DUMP: The ENTIRE dump is aborted. > :-( Well, I have solved my problem: 1 sblock means superblock :-) 2 my disk was not mounted at startup and there was no fstab entry for this filesystem. Since dump uses the raw device, I needed to add an entry in fstab or to specify /dev/rsdXX in the dump command. Obvious now :-) Jean-Marc _____________________________________________________________________________ Jean-Marc Zucconi Observatoire de Besancon F 25010 Besancon cedex PGP Key: finger jmz@cabri.obs-besancon.fr =============================================================================