Date: Wed, 1 Nov 1995 08:47:45 -0700 From: Nate Williams <nate@rocky.sri.MT.net> To: Brian Litzinger <brian@MediaCity.com> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: DUMP: short read error from /dev/rsd1f: [block 3440784]: count=8192, got=8191 Message-ID: <199511011547.IAA14799@rocky.sri.MT.net> In-Reply-To: <199511011107.DAA15584@MediaCity.com> References: <199511011107.DAA15584@MediaCity.com>
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> for some time without incident. Recently I did a dump and got
>
> DUMP: dumping (Pass IV) [regular files]
> DUMP: short read error from /dev/rsd1f: [block 6288]: count=8192, got=8191
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Umm, why are you reading from the raw device? DUMPs are taken from
unmounted block devices.
So, you should be doing something like this instead:
# dump 0uf /dev/nrst0 /dev/sd0a
OR
# dump 0uf /dev/nrst0 /
The other questions I'll leave for someone else.
Nate
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