Date: Thu, 22 Oct 1998 12:16:08 -0500 (CDT) From: "Paul T. Root" <proot@horton.iaces.com> To: jm7996@devrycols.edu Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Used /sbin/dump - Bad Thing(tm) Happened. Message-ID: <199810221716.MAA08382@horton.iaces.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9810221312350.21135-100000@insomnia.local.net> from "James A. Mutter" at "Oct 22, 98 01:14:55 pm"
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In a previous message, James A. Mutter said: > > Hey all, > > I recently used /sbin/dump to move data from one drive to another, now, > the drive which I migrated everything to give me an 'invalid superblock' > when I try to mount it. > > I'm curious as to: > A. What caused this. > B. Most importantly, how to fix it. > > This was my command line: /sbin/dump -0f /dev/wd1s1a / > Dump didn't complain about anything during the transfer. /dev/wd1s1a is now a dump file containing the / filesystem. What you want to do is: newfs /dev/rwd1s1a mount /dev/wd1s1a /mnt cd /mnt dump -0f - / | restore -rf - -- "If I had thought about it, I wouldn't have done the experiment. The literature was full of examples that said you can't do this." --Spencer Silver on the work that led to the unique adhesives for 3-M "Post-It" Notepads. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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