From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Feb 21 11:29:28 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from solaris.matti.ee (solaris.matti.ee [194.126.98.135]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 759AE37B52B for ; Mon, 21 Feb 2000 11:29:20 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from vallo@matti.ee) Received: from myhakas.matti.ee (myhakas.matti.ee [194.126.114.87]) by solaris.matti.ee (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7403B2CE64; Mon, 21 Feb 2000 21:29:04 +0200 (EET) Received: by myhakas.matti.ee (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 2FBC3412; Mon, 21 Feb 2000 21:29:07 +0200 (EET) Date: Mon, 21 Feb 2000 21:29:07 +0200 From: Vallo Kallaste To: Dan Nelson Cc: Andy Wallace , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: bad superblock magic number Message-ID: <20000221212907.B52298@myhakas.matti.ee> Reply-To: vallo@matti.ee References: <200002211757.LAA52989@physics.angelo.edu> <20000221123833.A98259@dan.emsphone.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95.6i In-Reply-To: <20000221123833.A98259@dan.emsphone.com>; from Dan Nelson on Mon, Feb 21, 2000 at 12:38:33PM -0600 Organization: =?iso-8859-1?Q?AS_Matti_B=FCrootehnika?= Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, Feb 21, 2000 at 12:38:33PM -0600, Dan Nelson wrote: > 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. He probably has the / after mountpoint definition, about a year ago also got this problem. Andy, please check if you have commandline similar to: dump -0a -f - /usr/ ^^ and remove the last slash. -- Vallo Kallaste vallo@matti.ee To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message