Date: Sat, 23 Apr 2005 06:05:25 +1000 From: Peter Jeremy <PeterJeremy@optushome.com.au> To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: dump woes Message-ID: <20050422200525.GG12673@cirb503493.alcatel.com.au> In-Reply-To: <20050422030748.GA64953@neptune.atopia.net> References: <20050422030748.GA64953@neptune.atopia.net>
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On Thu, 2005-Apr-21 23:07:48 -0400, Dan Ponte wrote: >I'm having a rather strange predicament with dump(8). First, I tried >dumping a snapshot to a file within the filesystem being dumped like so: > > styx# dump -0u -a -L -C 8 -f /usr/backup/usr.dump /usr > >I then let it sit for a while. The filesystem was only 4.1GB, but the >dump file was growing to almost 12GB! Try running fsck on the filesystem. It's possible that there's some corruption that's confusing dump. -- Peter Jeremy
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