From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Oct 21 17:48:41 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E667F37B401 for ; Mon, 21 Oct 2002 17:48:39 -0700 (PDT) Received: from lyceum.netmojo.ca (lyceum.pims.sfu.ca [142.58.49.80]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 58BA143E8A for ; Mon, 21 Oct 2002 17:48:39 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from brent@lyceum.netmojo.ca) Received: (from brent@localhost) by lyceum.netmojo.ca (8.11.6/8.11.6) id g9M0mbP77138 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Mon, 21 Oct 2002 17:48:37 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from brent) Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2002 17:48:37 -0700 From: Brent Kearney To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: DUMP: bad sblock magic number Message-ID: <20021021174837.A77115@kearneys.ca> Reply-To: brent@kearneys.ca Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i X-URL: http://brent.kearneys.ca Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hello, I'm trying the following on FreeBSD 4.2: dump -0 -h 0 -u -a -f /dev/nsa0 /home/foo And the dump is dying with the message: DUMP: Dumping /home/shared to /dev/nsa0 DUMP: bad sblock magic number DUMP: The ENTIRE dump is aborted. /home/foo is not a mount point, but I seem to remember FreeBSD's dump being able to dump subdirectories. I can dump /home (which is a mount point) without any errors, so its not a problem with /dev/nsa0. What does "bad sblock magic number" mean? Please CC: me on any replies, as I'm not subscribed -- and thanks in advance. Cheers, Brent To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message