From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Feb 21 10:38:48 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from dan.emsphone.com (dan.emsphone.com [199.67.51.101]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 62ECF37B515 for ; Mon, 21 Feb 2000 10:38:45 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dan@dan.emsphone.com) Date: Mon, 21 Feb 2000 12:38:33 -0600 From: Dan Nelson To: Andy Wallace Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: bad superblock magic number Message-ID: <20000221123833.A98259@dan.emsphone.com> References: <200002211757.LAA52989@physics.angelo.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200002211757.LAA52989@physics.angelo.edu>; from "Andy Wallace" on Mon Feb 21 11:57:04 GMT 2000 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In the last episode (Feb 21), Andy Wallace said: > Hello all, > > I am getting a "bad superblock magic number" from the dump command. > I've run fsck -p -f several times, but still get the same error. > Checked handbook, FAQ, and man pages. Mail archives are down...any > suggestions? What is your dump commandline, and what are your mountpoints? Dump can only back up entire filesystems. Don't give it an arbitraty subdirectory name. -- Dan Nelson dnelson@emsphone.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message