On Sun, 6 Oct 2024, Paul Goyette wrote:
With the ability to use logicall disk names instead of hardware names,
it seems to me that /etc/dumpdates needsd to be changed.
The problem comes when a file-system (for rexample, /var) "moves" from
one hardware drive to another. This can easily happen if a new drive is
added to the system. (Perhaps a USB hard drive which may or may not be
present at boot time?) A previous dump of /var might have occurred when
/var was mounted from /dev/dk1, but a current dump would dump from
/dev/dk2. There is no clue in /etc/dumpdates to tie the different
entries together.
Is there some sensible way to update dump(8) to use the file-system name
rather than the physical drive name? ie, record the dump of /var rather
than of /dev/dkn ?
Well, I did a little bit of reading in the dump(8) man page, and
I found the -U option. This allows me to specify what to put into
/etc/dumpdate's firrst field, overriding the /dev/dk<n> default:
dump -U root ... /
Ask, and ye shall receive. :-)
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