From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Feb 25 02:35:57 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 151C31065672 for ; Thu, 25 Feb 2010 02:35:57 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from aiza21@comclark.com) Received: from avmxsmtp5.comclark.com (avmxsmtp5.comclark.com [202.69.191.119]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 56E2D8FC19 for ; Thu, 25 Feb 2010 02:35:55 +0000 (UTC) Received: (qmail 17985 invoked by uid 89); 25 Feb 2010 02:35:54 -0000 Received: by simscan 1.3.1 ppid: 17980, pid: 17981, t: 0.0543s scanners: attach: 1.3.1 clamav: 0.93.3/m: Received: from unknown (HELO ?10.0.10.3?) (202.69.173.143) by avmxsmtp5.comclark.com with SMTP; 25 Feb 2010 02:35:54 -0000 Message-ID: <4B85E205.1000207@comclark.com> Date: Thu, 25 Feb 2010 10:35:49 +0800 From: Aiza User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.17 (Windows/20080914) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Subject: left over restore file restoresymtable 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: Thu, 25 Feb 2010 02:35:57 -0000 The man for restore says this. Note that restore leaves a file restoresymtable in the root directory to pass information between incremental restore passes. This file should be removed when the last incremental has been restored. What root directory is this talking about? If system is booted from cd or dvd then this file can not be written to /root of the booted system. Does this message really mean its written to /root of the just restored file system /