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Date:      Tue, 23 Mar 1999 18:57:44 +0000
From:      Piete Brooks <Piete.Brooks@cl.cam.ac.uk>
To:        Beau James <bjames@cisco.com>
Cc:        aic7xxx@FreeBSD.ORG, oa@razorfish.fi
Subject:   Re: SOFTWARE-RAID-TIPS (was: Adaptec 7890 and RAID portIII RAID controller Linux Support) 
Message-ID:  <E10PWN5-0004c6-00@heaton.cl.cam.ac.uk>
In-Reply-To: Your message of Tue, 23 Mar 1999 01:18:38 -0800. <199903230918.BAA01639@frogger.cisco.com> 

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>-->      dump [0123456789BbhfusTdWn [argument ...]] directory
>--> It *can* do it,
> Not on Linux.

It was Linux to which I was referring ... dump-0.3-17 RPM ...

> The Linux version accepts a directory name

Yup ...

> as a convenient shorthand, but dumps the whole filesystem containing that
> directory:

I disagree ...

>	  DUMP: Dumping /dev/sdb1 (/) to /dev/null

Yes, it is dumping parts of / ...

>	  DUMP: DUMP: 2276 tape blocks on 1 volumes(s)

Do you believe that to be the size of your whole / partition ??

% uname -a
Linux gooch.cl.cam.ac.uk 2.2.2 #1 SMP Wed Feb 24 08:27:51 GMT 1999 i686 unknown
% really dump 0f - /tmp | restore tf -
  DUMP: Date of this level 0 dump: Tue Mar 23 18:55:46 1999
  DUMP: Date of last level 0 dump: the epoch
  DUMP: Dumping /dev/hda3 (/) to standard output
  DUMP: mapping (Pass I) [regular files]
  DUMP: mapping (Pass II) [directories]
  DUMP: estimated 240 tape blocks.
  DUMP: dumping (Pass III) [directories]
Dump   date: Tue Mar 23 18:55:46 1999
Dumped from: the epoch
Level 0 dump of / on gooch.cl.cam.ac.uk:/dev/hda3 (dir tmp)
Label: none
  DUMP: dumping (Pass IV) [regular files]
         2      .
     30721      ./tmp
     30724      ./tmp/tst
     30728      ./tmp/X
    176152      ./tmp/.X11-unix
    176153      ./tmp/.X11-unix/X1
    176151      ./tmp/.X11-unix/X0
    176147      ./tmp/.X11-unix/X99
    256125      ./tmp/amanda
    256002      ./tmp/amanda/amandad.debug
    256005      ./tmp/amanda/sendsize.debug
    256009      ./tmp/amanda/rundump.debug
    256006      ./tmp/amanda/sendbackup.debug
    256008      ./tmp/amanda/selfcheck.debug
  DUMP: Broken pipe
  DUMP: The ENTIRE dump is aborted.
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