Date: Tue, 11 Mar 1997 12:14:18 -0500 (EST) From: Greg Hormann <ghormann@ns.kconline.com> To: questions@freebsd.org Cc: Jim Riffle <rif@wawasee.read.indiana.edu> Subject: DUMP: missing files. Message-ID: <Pine.BSI.3.95.970311115449.8556A-100000@wawasee.read.indiana.edu>
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This weekend, while trying to convert a 100M dos partition to swap space on a -current (before Lite/2) machine using the sysinstall method, I destroyed both my / and /usr partitions. No problem! I had just dumped / and /usr to a tape only 3 hours ago. (Or so I though.) After using "restore" to reconstruction the file system, I noticed a few files were missing. Notably, some libraries (and Linux libraries also), the ".pinerc"'s of users who we probably reading their mail at the time, my bookmark.htm file, etc. My question: what happened to those files? After realizing the problem, I check the tape again. I looked in the my home director for .pinerc on the tape, and it was listed there, but when I tried to extract it, it said "/home/ghormann/.pinerc" is not on the tape. Does dump not back up open files? I didn't write to .pinerc (or the libs), during that time, but I did have pine open. How can I prevent this problem in the future? Greg.
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