Date: Mon, 5 Nov 2007 18:24:24 -0800 (PST) From: FX Charpentier <charpentierfx@yahoo.com> To: Jerry McAllister <jerrymc@msu.edu> Cc: Roland Smith <rsmith@xs4all.nl>, James <jamesh@lanl.gov>, Sean Murphy <smurphy@calarts.edu>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Help Failing Disk Problem Message-ID: <78928.22727.qm@web36203.mail.mud.yahoo.com>
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Thanks. I might actually use this on a box I'm running. Best, - FX ----- Original Message ---- > From: Jerry McAllister <jerrymc@msu.edu> > To: FX Charpentier <charpentierfx@yahoo.com> > Cc: Roland Smith <rsmith@xs4all.nl>; James <jamesh@lanl.gov>; Sean Murphy <smurphy@calarts.edu>; freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > Sent: Monday, November 5, 2007 7:18:57 PM > Subject: Re: Help Failing Disk Problem > > On Mon, Nov 05, 2007 at 02:40:36PM -0800, FX Charpentier wrote: > > > Roland, > > > > The mention of dump '-L' in your email below has caught my attention. > > Pardon my ignorance, but what is the '-L' option? > > > > I looked it up in the man pages but wasn't able to find any > mention > of it. > > Can you point me in the right direction? > > It stands for 'Live' and causes dump to do some snapshotting if you > are running from multi user. It is not really meaningful if you > are running in single user mode, but can help reduce confusion if > files change during a dump on a live multi user mode system. > > ////jerry > > > > > Thanks, > > - FX > > > __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com
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