Date: Mon, 17 Mar 2003 19:37:43 -0500 From: "Mike Packard" <mike@packards-home.net> To: "questions@freebsd.org" <questions@freebsd.org> Cc: "Mike Packard" <mike@packards-home.net> Subject: dump a filesystem and using null fs Message-ID: <200303180040.TAA18772@gemini.smart.net>
next in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
I have ran into a little quirk in dump. This may have been caused by trying to be to clever, but I'll let you people decide. First, I have a filesystem mount point /mnt_nfs/FreeBSD mounted from /dev/ad0s4e. Next I have another mount point /var/ftp/pub/FreeBSD mounted to /mnt_nfs/FreeBSD with the filesystem null. I got this clever idea from reading mount_null man page and somewhere from the Web or news. Here is a snippet of my fstab to accompish all this: /dev/ad2s4e /mnt_nfs/FreeBSD ufs rw 2 2 /mnt_nfs/FreeBSD /var/ftp/pub/FreeBSD null ro 0 2 Now, my problem I ran into is when I run dump on /mnt_nfs/FreeBSD. I get an error from dump: dump -f /var/test/dump /mnt_nfs/FreeBSD DUMP: Date of this level 0 dump: Thu Mar 13 21:30:46 2003 DUMP: Date of last level 0 dump: the epoch DUMP: Dumping /mnt_nfs/rFreeBSD (/var/ftp/pub/FreeBSD) to /var/test/dump dump: Cannot open /mnt_nfs/rFreeBSD: No such file or directory As can be seen, the letter 'r' go stuck before the FreeBSD. Now, this, after poking around in dump, is to fix 'raw' devices. The /var/ftp/pub/FreeBSD is getting traced back to /mnt_nfs/FreeBSD and it is tried to be made into a raw device. Ok here is my question, how to fix this, and yes I know I'm being clever in setting this up like this? I could just go straight into /var/ftp/pub/FreeBSD and not use /mnt_nfs/FreeBSD. But I'm annal and I don't like that just because it disrupts my organizational scheme. As a side note, I use /var/ftp/pub/FreeBSD to get this large directory available for ftping. Since ftpd does not allow soft links. This allowed me to put a large disk space available for anonymous ftp. Mike Packard mike@packardshome.net To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?200303180040.TAA18772>