From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jul 30 22: 2:37 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from sleipner.eiffel.dk (sub19-229.member.dsl-only.net [63.105.19.229]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5D6C637B403 for ; Mon, 30 Jul 2001 22:02:35 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from flemming@froekjaer.org) Received: from froekjaer.org (sub19-225.member.dsl-only.net [63.105.19.225]) by sleipner.eiffel.dk (8.11.1/8.11.1) with ESMTP id f6V54q549529; Mon, 30 Jul 2001 22:05:02 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from flemming@froekjaer.org) Message-ID: <3B663BB7.95EF6DE5@froekjaer.org> Date: Mon, 30 Jul 2001 22:01:43 -0700 From: Flemming Froekjaer X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.77 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.2.12 i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Mark Hughes Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Mounting backup made with dump References: <002001c118a4$84715e90$0200a8c0@mark2> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Mark Hughes wrote: > I'm trying to look at the contents of a single file that I've got archived > in a "dump" of my entire /usr partition. Is there any way of mounting the > dump file as a filesystem so I can take a look at that file without goign > to the hassle of using restore? Take a look at restore -i It will go into interactive mode and let you select what files to restore. \Flemming To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message