A softupdates problem?

2003-07-03 Thread Mark
Hello, Making a daily server backup, using dump (FreeBSD 4.7R), I keep running into a softupdates problem. That is, prior to backing up a partition (/var), I move a large file (several gigabytes) off that partition. But because of the softupdates effect, the size of that large file is added

Re: A softupdates problem?

2003-07-03 Thread Konrad Heuer
On Thu, 3 Jul 2003, Mark wrote: Making a daily server backup, using dump (FreeBSD 4.7R), I keep running into a softupdates problem. That is, prior to backing up a partition (/var), I move a large file (several gigabytes) off that partition. But because of the softupdates effect, the size

Re: A softupdates problem?

2003-07-03 Thread Matthew Seaman
On Thu, Jul 03, 2003 at 11:15:14AM +, Mark wrote: Making a daily server backup, using dump (FreeBSD 4.7R), I keep running into a softupdates problem. That is, prior to backing up a partition (/var), I move a large file (several gigabytes) off that partition. But because of the softupdates

Re: A softupdates problem?

2003-07-03 Thread Mark
- Original Message - From: Matthew Seaman [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Mark [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, July 03, 2003 1:23 PM Subject: Re: A softupdates problem? Hmmm... not an answer to the question you asked, but does not: # chflags nodump your-very-large