Re: Dump failure

From: Simon (ask_at_me.com)
Date: 12/31/04 

Date: Fri, 31 Dec 2004 16:09:47 +0000

On 31/12/04 3:31 am, in article IK3Bd.27923$3v5.27695@fe2.texas.rr.com,
"Logan Shaw" <lshaw-usenet@austin.rr.com> wrote:

>
> You could try using "-f /dev/null". That should give you a good idea
> whether the problem is on the dumping or on the writing-to-a-file side.
>
> Also, can you create a file greater than 2 GB on the destination
> filesystem? Have you tried doing something like
>
> dd if=/dev/zero bs=1024k count=5000 of=/mnt/bigfile
>
> to see that at least "dd" can write a big file to the filesystem?
>
> I don't know much about large file (> 2 GB) support on FreeBSD,
> but is it possible your installation is too old to support large
> files?
>
> - Logan

Thanks for the responses so far.

I tried the dd command which worked fine and produced a file larger than the
point at which dump failed. (4296015872 vs. 4294983680)

A little more detail on my system may help. This is FreeBSD 5.1. The
mounted disk is a UFS formatted disk connected to a Mac OS X box which is
shared via NFS.

Simon

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