From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Oct 21 19:13: 3 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E00E637B401 for ; Mon, 21 Oct 2002 19:13:01 -0700 (PDT) Received: from be-well.ilk.org (lowellg.ne.client2.attbi.com [24.147.188.198]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1B29F43E77 for ; Mon, 21 Oct 2002 19:12:26 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from freebsd-questions-local@be-well.no-ip.com) Received: from be-well.ilk.org (lowellg.ne.client2.attbi.com [24.147.188.198] (may be forged)) by be-well.ilk.org (8.12.6/8.12.5) with ESMTP id g9M2CP8s044329; Mon, 21 Oct 2002 22:12:25 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from freebsd-questions-local@be-well.no-ip.com) Received: (from lowell@localhost) by be-well.ilk.org (8.12.6/8.12.6/Submit) id g9M2CP1w044326; Mon, 21 Oct 2002 22:12:25 -0400 (EDT) X-Authentication-Warning: be-well.ilk.org: lowell set sender to freebsd-questions-local@be-well.ilk.org using -f To: brent@kearneys.ca Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: DUMP: bad sblock magic number References: <20021021174837.A77115@kearneys.ca> From: Lowell Gilbert Date: 21 Oct 2002 22:12:24 -0400 In-Reply-To: <20021021174837.A77115@kearneys.ca> Message-ID: <444rbfw7av.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> Lines: 25 User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.2 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Brent Kearney writes: > Hello, I'm trying the following on FreeBSD 4.2: > > dump -0 -h 0 -u -a -f /dev/nsa0 /home/foo > > And the dump is dying with the message: > > DUMP: Dumping /home/shared to /dev/nsa0 > DUMP: bad sblock magic number > DUMP: The ENTIRE dump is aborted. > > /home/foo is not a mount point, but I seem to remember FreeBSD's dump > being able to dump subdirectories. The man page seems to say otherwise, so you're on your own there. Luckily, you have the source. > I can dump /home (which is a mount > point) without any errors, so its not a problem with /dev/nsa0. What > does "bad sblock magic number" mean? It means, more or less, that it can't find a valid filesystem for the parameters given it. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message