/altroot problem

2010-03-28 Thread Andreas Gerdd
Hi. I try to have a root backup with /altroot. I did everything related to the man pages. But i wonder why my /altroot partition is still empty. fstab file: /dev/wd0a / ffs rw,softdep 1 1 /dev/wd0d /altroot ffs xx 0 0 Both / and /altroot partitions are having the same size, I also added

Re: /altroot problem

2010-03-28 Thread Nick Holland
Andreas Gerdd wrote: Hi. I try to have a root backup with /altroot. I did everything related to the man pages. But i wonder why my /altroot partition is still empty. fstab file: /dev/wd0a / ffs rw,softdep 1 1 /dev/wd0d /altroot ffs xx 0 0 Both / and /altroot partitions are having

Re: /altroot problem

2010-03-28 Thread Andreas Gerdd
ls /altroot shows nothing inside, other than ./ and ../ On Sun, Mar 28, 2010 at 17:51, Nick Holland n...@holland-consulting.net wrote: Andreas Gerdd wrote: Hi. I try to have a root backup with /altroot. I did everything related to the man pages. But i wonder why my /altroot partition is

Re: /altroot problem

2010-03-28 Thread Ingo Schwarze
Andreas Gerdd wrote on Sun, Mar 28, 2010 at 06:01:07PM +0300: On Sun, Mar 28, 2010, Nick Holland n...@holland-consulting.net wrote: Andreas Gerdd wrote: I try to have a root backup with /altroot. I did everything related to the man pages. But i wonder why my /altroot partition is still

Re: /altroot problem

2010-03-28 Thread Andreas Gerdd
What does $ df /altroot tell you, in particular, which mount point is it reporting? Mounted on / or Mounted on /altroot? df /altroot shows: Mounted on / (df -h doesn't show /altroot.) So i cannot browse the content of /altroot, even though the backup files are there?

Re: /altroot problem

2010-03-28 Thread Robert
Andreas Gerdd wrote: What does $ df /altroot tell you, in particular, which mount point is it reporting? Mounted on / or Mounted on /altroot? df /altroot shows: Mounted on / (df -h doesn't show /altroot.) So i cannot browse the content of /altroot, even though the backup files are there?

Re: /altroot problem

2010-03-28 Thread Ingo Schwarze
What does $ df /altroot tell you, in particular, which mount point is it reporting? Mounted on / or Mounted on /altroot? df /altroot shows: Mounted on / (df -h doesn't show /altroot.) Thus, /altroot is currently not mounted. So i cannot browse the content of /altroot, even though the

Re: /altroot problem

2010-03-28 Thread Igor Sobrado
On Sun, Mar 28, 2010 at 6:03 PM, Ingo Schwarze schwa...@usta.de wrote: df /altroot shows: Mounted on / (df -h doesn't show /altroot.) Thus, /altroot is currently not mounted. As you said before, it shouldn't be usually mounted as it is used by dd(1). daily.out's output on the first email