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From: Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de>
To: eras mus <erasmu@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: restoresymtable after dump and restore
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On Wed, 22 Jan 2014 12:59:31 +0530, eras mus wrote:
> But in my /home  folder i have a restoresymtable of size 33968468
> and that partition is 101% full.

Note that /home is a directory, not a "folder". This hint is
just about proper terminology. :-)



> Does this file(restoresymtable) has any significance?
> Could i remove it by rm -rf ?
> Will removing of the file cause any harm?

This file is a remains from running the restore program. It should
be safe to remove it. Its creation is usually caused by the -r option
of restore (see "man restore" for details).

>From the manpage:

Note that restore leaves a file restoresymtable in the root
directory to pass information between incremental restore passes.
This file should be removed when the last incremental has been
restored.


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Polytropon
Magdeburg, Germany
Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0
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