From c428ace885437d38f0343448bc61807c6e7a690c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: mckusick Date: Tue, 18 Nov 2003 00:36:40 +0000 Subject: Document that the live dump command (`dump -L') creates its snapshot in the .snap directory in the root of the filesystem being dumped. Document that if the .snap directory is missing that it must be created manually and that it should be owned by user root and group operator and set to mode 770 before a live dump can be run. --- sbin/dump/dump.8 | 13 ++++++++++++- 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) 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 -- cgit v1.1