Date: Sat, 19 May 2001 23:45:24 +0100 (BST) From: Richard Tobin <richard@cogsci.ed.ac.uk> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: nodump flag Message-ID: <200105192245.XAA08007@banks.cogsci.ed.ac.uk>
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In the hope of being able to dump a large filesystem in CD-size pieces, I tried setting the nodump flag on most of the top-level directories. The resulting dump file was much larger than I expected - about 600MB when du shows 400MB (the whole filesystem is about 9GB). So I tried marking all but an *empty* directory as nodump. The resulting dump file was 200MB! restore -i shows only the expected empty directory. restore -r produces zillions of messages like expected next file 2539521, got 1390370 What is dump doing? Is it writing something for every inode even though it's only dumping part of the filesystem? -- Richard To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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