Re: restore in Fixit mode

2008-03-27 Thread Nejc Škoberne
Hi Douglas, That's the problem all right (got bit years ago by it). It's been a while but if you've got a /tmp partition, mount it over the memory file system /tmp so restore can lay off what it needs there. Or make a memory file system backed by swap. Thanks for this one, it solved my proble

restore in Fixit mode

2008-03-27 Thread Infrax Administrator
Hello, I am trying to restore a backup of /usr created with dump using the command: dump -0 -Lauf - / | bzip2 | dd of=root.backup When I restore / and /var partitions, I don't have any problems. Here's how I do it: 1. boot FreeBSD 7.0 live CD and go to fixit mode. 2. mount /dev/ads1a partition