Andreas Gerdd wrote on Sun, Mar 28, 2010 at 06:01:07PM +0300: > On Sun, Mar 28, 2010, Nick Holland <[email protected]> wrote: >> Andreas Gerdd wrote:
>>> I try to have a root backup with /altroot. >>> I did everything related to the man pages. But i wonder why my >>> /altroot partition is still empty. >>> >>> fstab file: >>> >>> /dev/wd0a / ffs rw,softdep 1 1 >>> /dev/wd0d /altroot ffs xx 0 0 >>> >>> Both / and /altroot partitions are having the same size, >>> >>> I also added ROOTBACKUP=1 to /etc/daily.local, >>> >>> Daily.out file: >>> >>> Backing up root=/dev/rwd0a to /dev/rwd0d: >>> 33129+1 records in >>> 33129+1 records out >>> 271393792 bytes transferred in 13.288 secs (20423240 bytes/sec) >>> ** /dev/rwd0d >> How are you verifying that the /altroot PARTITION is empty? > ls /altroot > shows nothing inside, other than ./ and ../ What does $ df /altroot tell you, in particular, which mount point is it reporting? "Mounted on /" or "Mounted on /altroot"? I'm asking because "xx" in fstab(5) means "ignore totally", so /altroot will not be mounted by default, so ls(1) can't show the contents. By the way, this is useful behaviour. If you are regularly dd(1)ing into a partition, you do *not* want it to be mounted. Yours, Ingo
