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From: mwhite@freehold.cs.columbia.edu (Matt White)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Multiple Filesystem Dumps on Tape, how do I label them so I can skip to the next one?
Date: 21 Oct 1996 23:29:00 GMT
Organization: Columbia University Department of Computer Science
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In article <54gtkc$svv@nadine.teleport.com>,
julie@foss.com (Julie Schneider) writes:
> How do I skip from a dump of one filesystem to the next one on tape?
> e.g. I've done a dump of wds0a(/) then another of wd0s1e(/usr) Is
> there a parameter to label the dump so I can skip to it with what I
> assume is an mt command????
restore s <n>
for more information, see restore(8). ;-)
> Also, what is the meaning of the number in parens when referring to a
> unix command, e.g. dump(8). Is this is version of the program?
The number in parentheses is the section that the manpage exists in.
Since, each section of the manual has a different topic for its pages,
this can be used to resolve ambiguities in the case where a program has
the same name as a system call (for example). To access this man page,
for example, you would type:
% man 8 dump
In practice the section name is rarely ever needed and you can get away
with:
% man dump
The most common sections of the freebsd manual are:
1 - user commands
2 - system calls
3 - subroutines
4 - devices
5 - file formats
6 - games
7 - miscellaneous
8 - systems administration
my system also has:
l - local. I stuck the pages from gnu find in here so that they wouldn't
conflict with the FreeBSD find.
n - tcl wanted to install stuff here and I usually don't argue with ports
maintainers...except for the guy who wanted to put ssh keys in
/usr/local/etc...
Hope this helps!
-Matt
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Matt White
Dept of Computer Science mwhite@cs.columbia.edu
Columbia University http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~mwhite