On Mon, 04 Mar 2013 01:47:24 -0800
"Ronald F. Guilmette" <r...@tristatelogic.com> wrote:
>
>
> In the man page for restore(8) I see the following:
>
> The -r flag ... can be detrimental to one's health if
> not used carefully (not to mention the disk). An example:
>
> newfs /dev/da0s1a
> mount /dev/da0s1a /mnt
> cd /mnt
>
> restore rf /dev/sa0
>
>
> Personally, I utterly fail to see what point the author is attempting
> to illustrate with the above example. I mean what part of this, exactly,
> may be "detrimental to one's health" ? It's an enigma to me.
There's nothing wrong with the example. I think "An example:"
should be in a new paragraph to make it clear that it is not related to
the warning. The detrimental effects cut in when you use -r on a filesystem
that is not pristine, or at least in the expected state for restoring an
incremental dump.
--
Steve O'Hara-Smith <st...@sohara.org>
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