Help Failing Disk Problem

[FX Charpentier]

Thanks.  I might actually use this on a box I'm running.

Best,
- FX

----- Original Message ----
> From: Jerry McAllister <jerrymc at msu.edu>
> To: FX Charpentier <charpentierfx at yahoo.com>
> Cc: Roland Smith <rsmith at xs4all.nl>; James <jamesh at lanl.gov>; Sean Murphy <smurphy at calarts.edu>; freebsd-questions at 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
> > 
> 



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