From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jun 2 12:45:26 2014 Return-Path: Delivered-To: questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [8.8.178.115]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ADH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id C75531B1 for ; Mon, 2 Jun 2014 12:45:26 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.rcn.com (smtp-fo.rcn.cmh.synacor.com [69.168.97.80]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (Client did not present a certificate) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 8F26E210E for ; Mon, 2 Jun 2014 12:45:25 +0000 (UTC) X_CMAE_Category: , , X-CNFS-Analysis: v=2.0 cv=N4Cr5hBB c=1 sm=1 a=uNsD4W5u/UlQopoDAqU1YA==:17 a=cxFtQiS79j4A:10 a=-FezNamLM5gA:10 a=AaUjGI9IrlcA:10 a=8nJEP1OIZ-IA:10 a=OA2lqS22AAAA:8 a=spRX6DoKuzQsNjSLCSQA:9 a=wPNLvfGTeEIA:10 a=uNsD4W5u/UlQopoDAqU1YA==:117 X-CM-Score: 0 X-Scanned-by: Cloudmark Authority Engine X-Authed-Username: cm9iZXJ0aHVmZkByY24uY29t Authentication-Results: smtp01.rcn.cmh.synacor.com header.from=roberthuff@rcn.com; sender-id=neutral Authentication-Results: smtp01.rcn.cmh.synacor.com smtp.mail=roberthuff@rcn.com; spf=neutral; sender-id=neutral Authentication-Results: smtp01.rcn.cmh.synacor.com smtp.user=roberthuff; auth=pass (PLAIN) Received-SPF: neutral (smtp01.rcn.cmh.synacor.com: 209.6.39.223 is neither permitted nor denied by domain of rcn.com) Received: from [209.6.39.223] ([209.6.39.223:55827] helo=jerusalem.litteratus.org) by smtp.rcn.com (envelope-from ) (ecelerity 3.5.1.37854 r(Momo-dev:3.5.1.0)) with ESMTPA id A0/C3-59878-ED17C835; Mon, 02 Jun 2014 08:45:18 -0400 Message-ID: <538C71DA.9090305@rcn.com> Date: Mon, 02 Jun 2014 08:45:14 -0400 From: Robert Huff User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; FreeBSD amd64; rv:24.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/24.5.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: dump aborts; backsup device size issue? Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Robert Huff X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 02 Jun 2014 12:45:26 -0000 I have an external hard drive connected by eSATA; it looks like this: used free /dev/gpt/backup 451G 10G 405G 3% /backup However, when running dump this morning I got: /backup clean Disk mounted Using /backup/Mon Dumping to /backup/Mon/root DUMP: Date of this level 0 dump: Mon Jun 2 01:59:03 2014 DUMP: Date of last level 0 dump: the epoch DUMP: Dumping snapshot of /dev/gpt/root (/) to 2014.Jun.2.root.dump DUMP: mapping (Pass I) [regular files] DUMP: Cache 32 MB, blocksize = 65536 DUMP: mapping (Pass II) [directories] DUMP: estimated 1067897 tape blocks. DUMP: dumping (Pass III) [directories] DUMP: dumping (Pass IV) [regular files] DUMP: End of tape detected DUMP: Closing 2014.Jun.2.root.dump DUMP: Change Volumes: Mount volume #2 DUMP: fopen on /dev/tty fails: Device not configured DUMP: The ENTIRE dump is aborted. (System = FreeBSD 11.0-CURRENT #1 r264673: Sat Apr 19 09:43:10 EDT 2014 amd64 ) So ... trying to dump < 2 gybtes onto 405 free and "end of tape"? I'm confused. (I could reformat the disk, but I'd like to avoid that if possible.) Respectfully, Robert Huff