restoresymtable

[Mark]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Dick Hoogendijk" <dick at nagual.st>
To: "freebsd-questions" <freebsd-questions at freebsd.org>
Sent: Wednesday, July 09, 2003 11:03 PM
Subject: restoresymtable


> Inspecting the /usr directory I came across a >10MB file
> called "restoresymtable"
>
> Anybody got some idea where this came from?
> Can I safely delete it?
> How could it be created in the first place?


It was created by the "restore" program (recently restored a partion backed
up with "dump"?).

>From the ever useful "man restore":

"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."

- Mark