Date: Mon, 04 Mar 2013 01:47:24 -0800 From: "Ronald F. Guilmette" <rfg@tristatelogic.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Confused by restore(8) man page example Message-ID: <4861.1362390444@server1.tristatelogic.com>
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In the man page for restore(8) I see the following:
The -r flag ... can be detrimental to one's health if
not used carefully (not to mention the disk). An example:
newfs /dev/da0s1a
mount /dev/da0s1a /mnt
cd /mnt
restore rf /dev/sa0
Personally, I utterly fail to see what point the author is attempting
to illustrate with the above example. I mean what part of this, exactly,
may be "detrimental to one's health" ? It's an enigma to me.
All I see is a pre-existing BSD partition being explicitly newfs'ed and
then mounted, followed by some stuff being restored to that (clean)
BSD partition from whatever is currently sitting on the tape drive
called /dev/sa0.
So? What possible problem could derive from merely that? I don't see
any.
What's the problem? I'm confused.
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