El día Wednesday, November 14, 2012 a las 01:20:14AM -0700, Gary Aitken 
escribió:

> I needed to expand a /var partition, 
> which required saving and restoring /var and /usr
> 
> did the following:
>   booted to backup disk
>   dump -0aR -h 0 -f /usr/backup/dump_var_0_20121113_1920 /dev/ada0p4
>   (repeat for /tmp, /usr, / partitions to be safe)
>   repartitioned the main disk using gpart
>   newfs the modified partitions (var, tmp, usr)
>   rewrote the boot block and boot partition (#1)
>   mount /dev/ada0p4 /mnt/ssd/var
>   cd /mnt/ssd/var
>   restore -r /usr/backup/dump_var_0_20121113_1920
>   Cannot find file dump list
> 
> Any ideas why I get the "Cannot find file dump list"?
> What / where is it supposed to be?

You need to specify the file containing the DUMP with -f flag; and use
the flag -r only to restore to the original location, or -x to restore
into the current dir; check the man page for details;

        matthias
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