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From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: dumpfs on ccd drive crashes system?
Date: 23 Aug 1996 21:56:08 GMT
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"Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@FreeBSD.org> wrote:

> > Has it been reported that dumpfs(8) will reboot the system if
> > performed on a ccd(4) drive?  Happens without fail on this system....

> Use the send-pr command.

...but call the command correctly `dump', not `dumpfs' -- we are not
SVR4. ;-)  (SysV has a legacy command called `dump' that dumps the
contents of an object file, thus they renamed the backup utility
when going to UFS in SVR4.)

-- 
cheers, J"org

joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE
Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)