Date: Wed, 22 Jan 2014 08:43:40 +0100 From: Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de> To: eras mus <erasmu@gmail.com> Cc: "freebsd-questions@freebsd.org" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: restoresymtable after dump and restore Message-ID: <20140122084340.4e00c210.freebsd@edvax.de> In-Reply-To: <CALeO_hOwq=aqyz6A3P3t0-hzzesQ7sgZd-yhj%2B16rZ2fd_NZsA@mail.gmail.com> References: <CALeO_hOwq=aqyz6A3P3t0-hzzesQ7sgZd-yhj%2B16rZ2fd_NZsA@mail.gmail.com>
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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. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ...
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