Date: Mon, 21 Feb 2000 21:29:07 +0200 From: Vallo Kallaste <vallo@matti.ee> To: Dan Nelson <dnelson@emsphone.com> Cc: Andy Wallace <awallace@physics.angelo.edu>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: bad superblock magic number Message-ID: <20000221212907.B52298@myhakas.matti.ee> In-Reply-To: <20000221123833.A98259@dan.emsphone.com>; from Dan Nelson on Mon, Feb 21, 2000 at 12:38:33PM -0600 References: <200002211757.LAA52989@physics.angelo.edu> <20000221123833.A98259@dan.emsphone.com>
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On Mon, Feb 21, 2000 at 12:38:33PM -0600, Dan Nelson <dnelson@emsphone.com> 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
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