From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Feb 16 12:20:43 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from alpha.comkey.com.au (alpha.comkey.com.au [203.9.152.215]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 1B92F117BB for ; Tue, 16 Feb 1999 12:20:37 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from gjb@comkey.com.au) Received: (qmail 2167 invoked by uid 1001); 16 Feb 1999 20:05:11 -0000 Message-ID: <19990216200511.2166.qmail@alpha.comkey.com.au> X-Posted-By: GBA-Post 1.04 06-Feb-1999 X-PGP-Fingerprint: 5A91 6942 8CEA 9DAB B95B C249 1CE1 493B 2B5A CE30 Date: Wed, 17 Feb 1999 06:05:10 +1000 From: Greg Black To: jack Cc: admin , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: anybody able to explain this???? References: In-reply-to: of Sun, 14 Feb 1999 22:28:04 EST Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > > 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message