Date: Thu, 25 Feb 2010 09:29:26 -0500 From: Jerry McAllister <jerrymc@msu.edu> To: Aiza <aiza21@comclark.com> Cc: freebsd-questions <questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: left over restore file restoresymtable Message-ID: <20100225142926.GB60985@gizmo.acns.msu.edu> In-Reply-To: <4B85E205.1000207@comclark.com> References: <4B85E205.1000207@comclark.com>
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On Thu, Feb 25, 2010 at 10:35:49AM +0800, Aiza wrote: > 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 / > It is in the root of whatever filesystem you just restored. That essentially means the mount point value. If you have just restored /usr (correctly by doing: cd /usr restore -rf ...) then it will be in /usr. Don't worry about it. There is no harm in leaving it there until you get around to it. It just uses up space. ////jerry > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"
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