From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Mar 25 21:11: 3 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from jason05.u.washington.edu (jason05.u.washington.edu [140.142.78.6]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 61043153A9 for ; Thu, 25 Mar 1999 21:11:02 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from eroubinc@u.washington.edu) Received: from dante30.u.washington.edu (eroubinc@dante30.u.washington.edu [140.142.15.104]) by jason05.u.washington.edu (8.9.3+UW99.02/8.9.3+UW99.01) with ESMTP id VAA31246 for ; Thu, 25 Mar 1999 21:10:42 -0800 Received: from localhost (eroubinc@localhost) by dante30.u.washington.edu (8.9.3+UW99.02/8.9.3+UW99.01) with ESMTP id VAA74362 for ; Thu, 25 Mar 1999 21:10:42 -0800 Date: Thu, 25 Mar 1999 21:10:42 -0800 (PST) From: Evgeny Roubinchtein To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: "dump" of a "live" file system? Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Is it possible to "dump" a "live" file system? (i.e. dump a file system when the machine is in multi-user mode, with the filesystem that is being dumped mounted read-write). Is it safe/recommended? It seems like this wouldn't be a great idea, since on a "live" file system mounted read-write there may be pending writes, and it isn't clear how dump would cope with that. Is it better/ok/safe to first remount the filesystem read-only? I think I am a bit confused on this. Please include my address in replys. Thank you -- Evgeny Roubinchtein, eroubinc@u.washington.edu ................... BW: Branch on Whim To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message