From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Aug 9 9:58:44 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from copernicus.tranquility.net (copernicus.tranquility.net [206.152.117.186]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B3BB537BEFD; Wed, 9 Aug 2000 09:58:26 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bweaver@copernicus.tranquility.net) Received: (from bweaver@localhost) by copernicus.tranquility.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) id MAA46378; Wed, 9 Aug 2000 12:00:06 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from bweaver) Date: Wed, 9 Aug 2000 12:00:06 -0500 From: Ben Weaver To: Alan Clegg , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: An sblock magic number is... Message-ID: <20000809120006.A46354@tranquility.net> References: <20000809042514.A46006@tranquility.net> <20000809080735.A55136@diskfarm.firehouse.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.4i In-Reply-To: <20000809080735.A55136@diskfarm.firehouse.net>; from abc@bsdi.com on Wed, Aug 09, 2000 at 08:07:35AM +0000 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Heh... OK I'm done having my stupid moment... Thank's for seeing that :-) I'm still curious (just so I know) what an sblock magic number is. Thanks, -Ben On Wed, Aug 09, 2000 at 08:07:35AM +0000, Alan Clegg wrote: > Out of the ether, Ben Weaver spewed forth the following bitstream: > > > $ df > > Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Avail Capacity Mounted on > > /dev/sd0s1a 3976982 909105 2749719 25% / > > /dev/sd1s1e 3976982 3359343 299481 92% /home > > /dev/sd2s1f 992751 817542 95789 90% /var > > procfs 4 4 0 100% /proc > > > bash-2.03# ssh backup@tranq1 /sbin/dump -0a -f - /dev/sd0s1f | dd of=t1.var > > DUMP: bad sblock magic number > > Note that you are dumping /dev/sd0s1f and not /dev/sd2s1f. /dev/sd0s1f does > not contain a valid filesystem, thus can't be dumped. > > AlanC > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message