Yes, looks like this is the problem. I've setup /altroot during installation, and i didn't bother editing fstab. /altroot looks like this:
/dev/wd0d /altroot ffs rw 1 2 So i should change ffs to xx, right? -- Gabri Mate [EMAIL PROTECTED] On 22:02 Sat 05 Jul , Denny White wrote: > > Quoted from Gabri Mate on Sun, Jul 06, 2008 at 02:25:55AM +0200,: > > Hey There List, > > > > I've made an /altroot partition, exactly the same size as my /, and it > > is also mounted. I've put ROOTBACKUP=1 in root's crontab, but my / > > partition doesn't get dumped on /altroot at the daily cron's run. I have > > 4.3 release. > > Is there something i'm missing? > > -- > > Gabri Mate > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > [demime 1.01d removed an attachment of type application/pgp-signature] > > > > Read this portion of /etc/daily: > > # If ROOTBACKUP is set to 1 in the environment, and > # if filesystem named /altroot is type ffs, on /dev/* and mounted "xx", > # use it as a backup root filesystem to be updated daily. > > And, if you read fstab(5) you'll see this: > > "If fs_type is specified as ``xx'' the entry is ignored." > > So, fs_type should be xx in your fstab, right? You didn't include > your fstab, but that sounds like what the problem is; i.e., you > don't have that in yours and altroot is mounting normally. > > > > Denny White > > -- > > People who want to share their religious views with you almost never > want you to share yours with them. Dave Barry > > All messages scanned by ClamAssassin > http://jameslick.com/clamassassin/ > =============================================================== > GnuPG key : 0x1644E79A | http://wwwkeys.nl.pgp.net > Fingerprint: D0A9 AD44 1F10 E09E 0E67 EC25 CB44 F2E5 1644 E79A > =============================================================== [demime 1.01d removed an attachment of type application/pgp-signature]
