Date: Tue, 23 Mar 1999 18:57:44 +0000 From: Piete Brooks <Piete.Brooks@cl.cam.ac.uk> To: Beau James <bjames@cisco.com> Cc: aic7xxx@FreeBSD.ORG, oa@razorfish.fi Subject: Re: SOFTWARE-RAID-TIPS (was: Adaptec 7890 and RAID portIII RAID controller Linux Support) Message-ID: <E10PWN5-0004c6-00@heaton.cl.cam.ac.uk> In-Reply-To: Your message of Tue, 23 Mar 1999 01:18:38 -0800. <199903230918.BAA01639@frogger.cisco.com>
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>--> dump [0123456789BbhfusTdWn [argument ...]] directory
>--> It *can* do it,
> Not on Linux.
It was Linux to which I was referring ... dump-0.3-17 RPM ...
> The Linux version accepts a directory name
Yup ...
> as a convenient shorthand, but dumps the whole filesystem containing that
> directory:
I disagree ...
> DUMP: Dumping /dev/sdb1 (/) to /dev/null
Yes, it is dumping parts of / ...
> DUMP: DUMP: 2276 tape blocks on 1 volumes(s)
Do you believe that to be the size of your whole / partition ??
% uname -a
Linux gooch.cl.cam.ac.uk 2.2.2 #1 SMP Wed Feb 24 08:27:51 GMT 1999 i686 unknown
% really dump 0f - /tmp | restore tf -
DUMP: Date of this level 0 dump: Tue Mar 23 18:55:46 1999
DUMP: Date of last level 0 dump: the epoch
DUMP: Dumping /dev/hda3 (/) to standard output
DUMP: mapping (Pass I) [regular files]
DUMP: mapping (Pass II) [directories]
DUMP: estimated 240 tape blocks.
DUMP: dumping (Pass III) [directories]
Dump date: Tue Mar 23 18:55:46 1999
Dumped from: the epoch
Level 0 dump of / on gooch.cl.cam.ac.uk:/dev/hda3 (dir tmp)
Label: none
DUMP: dumping (Pass IV) [regular files]
2 .
30721 ./tmp
30724 ./tmp/tst
30728 ./tmp/X
176152 ./tmp/.X11-unix
176153 ./tmp/.X11-unix/X1
176151 ./tmp/.X11-unix/X0
176147 ./tmp/.X11-unix/X99
256125 ./tmp/amanda
256002 ./tmp/amanda/amandad.debug
256005 ./tmp/amanda/sendsize.debug
256009 ./tmp/amanda/rundump.debug
256006 ./tmp/amanda/sendbackup.debug
256008 ./tmp/amanda/selfcheck.debug
DUMP: Broken pipe
DUMP: The ENTIRE dump is aborted.
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