Re: overpartitioning/dump [was Re: following -stable]

2006-12-23 Thread Craig Skinner
On Sat, Dec 23, 2006 at 07:58:06PM +0100, Joachim Schipper wrote: > I interpret the above snippet to mean `dump works best on filesystems, > not files'. As to unmounting before dumping, that's possible but, IME, > not usually necessary. > Thanks, I'll keep that in mind for when it is not practica

Re: overpartitioning/dump [was Re: following -stable]

2006-12-23 Thread Joachim Schipper
On Sat, Dec 23, 2006 at 08:05:58AM +, Craig Skinner wrote: > I thought it was best pratice to umount a slice before dumping, but a > quick flick thourgh the man page states: > > files-to-dump is either a mountpoint of a filesystem or a list of files > and directories on a single filesystem to

overpartitioning/dump [was Re: following -stable]

2006-12-23 Thread Craig Skinner
On Fri, Dec 22, 2006 at 07:54:00PM -0500, Nick Holland wrote: > ... > >> Or, just skip the usr/obj partition... Having been stung a few times by > >> over partitioning recently, > > > > What's "overpartitioning"? ;-) > > That's when you say, "500M is plenty large for /var, except for this mail >