Dump an Unmounted Journaled UFS Filesystem

[Erich Dollansky]

Hi,

On Tue, 1 Jul 2014 22:15:03 -0400
Dan Plassche <dplassche at gmail.com> wrote:

> I understand that using dump is not currently recommended on a mounted
> journaled UFS2 filesystem.  I prefer to boot from a separate FreeBSD
> drive for cold backups anyway, so I'm wondering if there are any
> issues with running dump on an unmounted journaled filesystem?  All
> the discussions I've seen seem to focus on disabling journaling
> completely, which I would like to avoid.
> 
what should be wrong by first running a fsck and then the dump?

Erich