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Date:      Wed, 17 Feb 1999 06:05:10 +1000
From:      Greg Black <gjb@comkey.com.au>
To:        jack <jack@germanium.xtalwind.net>
Cc:        admin <admin@imediaconsultants.com>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: anybody able to explain this???? 
Message-ID:  <19990216200511.2166.qmail@alpha.comkey.com.au>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.10.9902142225460.62585-100000@germanium.xtalwind.net>  of Sun, 14 Feb 1999 22:28:04 EST
References:  <Pine.BSF.4.10.9902142225460.62585-100000@germanium.xtalwind.net> 

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> >   DUMP: Dumping /usr to /dev/nrst0
> >   DUMP: bad sblock magic number
> >   DUMP: The ENTIRE dump is aborted.
> 
> You don't say what your command line looks like, but it's
> probably something like
> 
> dump -some_options /usr/
> 
> if so remove the trailing `/'. 

This is absurd advice.  If the command line asked to dump
"/usr/", then "/usr/" would have appeared in the diagnostic.
Since the actual message quoted here said "/usr", then this
clearly shows there was no trailing slash on the name.

It is true that dump (stupidly) doesn't work if you do put a
trailing slash on the directory name, but that's not the problem
in this case.

-- 
Greg Black <gjb@acm.org>



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