dump doesn't work on mdconfig mounts

Poul-Henning Kamp phk at phk.freebsd.dk
Tue May 8 11:40:18 UTC 2007


In message <464056D0.2090003 at quip.cz>, Miroslav Lachman writes:
>Hi,
>
>when dump is used on an mdconfig mount it doesn't work:
>
># dump -0aLf - /vol0/jail/alpha | ( cd /vol0/jail/beta ; restore -ruf - )
>   DUMP: WARNING: Cannot use -L on an unmounted filesystem.
>dump: /vol0/jail/alpha: unknown file system

That's because /vol0/jail/alpha isn't in your /etc/fstab.

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