Re: [Dump-users] Cannnot stat directory??

[Stelian P. <st...@po...>]

On Tue, Jun 29, 2004 at 08:06:59AM -0700, Ken Godee wrote:
> Ok, I'm doing (trying) some strange things using a
> bootable diaster recovery disk and using dump/restore
> with a remote tape device. Working well, but on one
> system.....
> 
> Dump went well, but trying to verify dump with
> restore -C gave me the following...
> 
> unlisted file system
> Label =/boot
> restore-cannot stat directory on an unlisted
> file system: no such file system or directory.
> 
> Although an actual test restoring files seemed
> to work fine.
> 
> I guess I just don't understand the porcess here?
> restore -C is pulling an inode/file name and
> trying to stat the file/directory on the device
> that was backed up to compare, but since it's "unlisted"
> it doesn't know what device to check?

Exactly. An 'unlisted' filesystem is saved by its device name,
and restore doesn't know what mountpoint this filesystem is
supposed to be mounted on.

> I don't know, wild guess. Where does restore get
> its filesystem info, is it trying to match /boot
> to a partition and doesn't have that info?

The information come from /etc/mtab and /etc/fstab (in this order),
and it is saved into the dump header.

You can force the filesystem to be tested using the -D restore option.

Stelian.
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