From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Nov 6 02:24:41 2007 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 62E9216A417 for ; Tue, 6 Nov 2007 02:24:41 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from charpentierfx@yahoo.com) Received: from web36203.mail.mud.yahoo.com (web36203.mail.mud.yahoo.com [209.191.68.229]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 03C8E13C49D for ; Tue, 6 Nov 2007 02:24:40 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from charpentierfx@yahoo.com) Received: (qmail 24751 invoked by uid 60001); 6 Nov 2007 02:24:24 -0000 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=s1024; d=yahoo.com; h=X-YMail-OSG:Received:X-Mailer:Date:From:Subject:To:Cc:MIME-Version:Content-Type:Message-ID; b=EaVK3TbPtt1ZeikU+5PnR7zY1ItBocpgrZ2EWKJOhInhMBg5kMiuKqvDELvt+6sicPqZR2gXMNE/0RL9dUHhUbQnj3UiV543AYlbW6THi27MOeuxkvvigZuzy2BFQY0ubkjKXoTrAiOLoQDmExy1QwYwG5v2QyFhh3fkZNDky/4=; X-YMail-OSG: HdkwaikVM1kcXUReOp2WoTO1qy4JZryZrgasiUuO2dsgTL9T5C1o4FVMJ9FQ2AO7uS7HEDL4JIaVhp8w9_Khl5wuKGd82RFOh5giUrXEyxEpSlg440s- Received: from [71.249.49.180] by web36203.mail.mud.yahoo.com via HTTP; Mon, 05 Nov 2007 18:24:24 PST X-Mailer: YahooMailRC/814.06 YahooMailWebService/0.7.152 Date: Mon, 5 Nov 2007 18:24:24 -0800 (PST) From: FX Charpentier To: Jerry McAllister MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Message-ID: <78928.22727.qm@web36203.mail.mud.yahoo.com> Cc: Roland Smith , James , Sean Murphy , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Help Failing Disk Problem X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 06 Nov 2007 02:24:41 -0000 Thanks. I might actually use this on a box I'm running. Best, - FX ----- Original Message ---- > From: Jerry McAllister > To: FX Charpentier > Cc: Roland Smith ; James ; Sean Murphy ; freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > Sent: Monday, November 5, 2007 7:18:57 PM > Subject: Re: Help Failing Disk Problem > > On Mon, Nov 05, 2007 at 02:40:36PM -0800, FX Charpentier wrote: > > > Roland, > > > > The mention of dump '-L' in your email below has caught my attention. > > Pardon my ignorance, but what is the '-L' option? > > > > I looked it up in the man pages but wasn't able to find any > mention > of it. > > Can you point me in the right direction? > > It stands for 'Live' and causes dump to do some snapshotting if you > are running from multi user. It is not really meaningful if you > are running in single user mode, but can help reduce confusion if > files change during a dump on a live multi user mode system. > > ////jerry > > > > > Thanks, > > - FX > > > __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com