From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Feb 16 12:20:54 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 9E75D117BD for ; Tue, 16 Feb 1999 12:20:37 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from gjb@comkey.com.au) Received: (qmail 2108 invoked by uid 1001); 16 Feb 1999 20:04:17 -0000 Message-ID: <19990216200417.2107.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 06:04:17 +1000 From: Greg Black To: Dan Nelson Cc: admin , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: anybody able to explain this???? References: <36C78FB8.9A972D98@imediaconsultants.com> <19990214212612.A81588@dan.emsphone.com> In-reply-to: <19990214212612.A81588@dan.emsphone.com> of Sun, 14 Feb 1999 21:26:12 CST 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 /dev/rsd0s1a (/) to /dev/nrst0 > > DUMP: Dumping /usr to /dev/nrst0 > > dump prints the second line when the filesystem is not a mountpoint. A better way to write that might be: when the "filesystem" is not a filesystem. The point with dump is that it only operates on filesystems. Although it allows you to use directory names, it won't give you any joy unless they have a filesystem mounted on them. If you use device names, then you're sure that you're actually dealing with a filesystem -- and you can also dump filesystems that are not mounted. > I wonder if it wouldn't be a good idea to patch dump to print a better > error in this case. Oh no! Ability to understand dump's diagnostics is one of the things that separates the experienced Unix hackers from the newbies :-) -- Greg Black To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message