Date: Wed, 28 Aug 2002 10:02:51 -0400 (EDT) From: Jerry McAllister <jerrymc@clunix.cl.msu.edu> To: jerrymc@clunix.cl.msu.edu (Jerry McAllister) Cc: jonas@netwood.net (Jonas Fornander), freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: More dump questions Message-ID: <200208281402.g7SE2qF21550@clunix.cl.msu.edu> In-Reply-To: <200208281333.g7SDXT321216@clunix.cl.msu.edu> from "Jerry McAllister" at Aug 28, 2002 09:33:28 AM
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Oooopppps, typo!!!
> >
> > I'm trying to dump / and /usr to a second drive.
> >
> > The / dumped fine but I run into some problems when I tried to dump
> > /usr.
> > After the dump started I was asked the following continuously:
> > <snip>
> > DUMP: Change Volumes: Mount volume #25
> > DUMP: Is the new volume mounted and ready to go?: ("yes" or "no") y
> > DUMP: Volume 25 begins with blocks from inode 7531318
> > DUMP: Closing /bckup/usrdump/usr-20020809.dump
> > </snip>
> >
> > I stopped the dump at "Mount volume #35". At that time dump had created
> > a 40MB file. However /usr is 1.2GB.
> >
> > Is it correct that dump should ask all these "Mount volume" questions?
> > If so, is there a silent flag? I could not find one in the man pages.
>
> If you are dummpping to file on another hard disk you probably
> should not expect to see any of these messages. Check out using
> the 's' flag on dump - presuming you have room on the partition you
> are dumping to to hold everything.
Sorry, that should have said check out the 'a' flag called "auto-size"
in dump which allows it to run until the end without calculating
media size.
////jerry
>
> ////jerry
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