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From: graichen@mail.physik.fu-berlin.de (Thomas Graichen)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: dumpfs on ccd drive crashes system?
Date: 24 Aug 1996 05:46:24 GMT
Organization: his FreeBSD box :-)
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J Wunsch (j@uriah.heep.sax.de) wrote:
: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@FreeBSD.org> wrote:
: > > Has it been reported that dumpfs(8) will reboot the system if
: > > performed on a ccd(4) drive? Happens without fail on this system....
: > Use the send-pr command.
: ....but call the command correctly `dump', not `dumpfs' -- we are not
: SVR4. ;-) (SysV has a legacy command called `dump' that dumps the
: contents of an object file, thus they renamed the backup utility
: when going to UFS in SVR4.)
shure ?
graichen@mordillo:~> which dumpfs
/sbin/dumpfs
graichen@mordillo:~> uname -a
FreeBSD mordillo 2.1.0-RELEASE FreeBSD 2.1.0-RELEASE #0: Thu Aug 22 22:33:53 MET DST 1996 root@mordillo:/usr/src/sys/compile/KERNEL_CONFIG i386
graichen@mordillo:~>
maybe he was not trying to do a backup (for more see dumpfs(8) :-)
t
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