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diff --git a/sbin/dump/dump.8 b/sbin/dump/dump.8 index 7842a33..efe7a76 100644 --- a/sbin/dump/dump.8 +++ b/sbin/dump/dump.8 @@ -210,9 +210,20 @@ This option is to notify that it is dumping a live file system. To obtain a consistent dump image, .Nm -takes a snapshot of the file system and +takes a snapshot of the file system in the +.Pa .snap +directory in the root of the filesystem being dumped and then does a dump of the snapshot. The snapshot is removed when the dump is complete. +If the +.Pa .snap +directory does not exist in the root of the filesystem being dumped, +the dump will fail. +This problem can be corrected by creating a +.Pa .snap +directory in the root of the filesystem to be dumped; +its owner should be root, its group should be operator, +and its mode should be 0770. .It Fl n Whenever .Nm |
