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From: chris@mimsy.UUCP (Chris Torek)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: Restoring to a smaller fs?
Message-ID: <9090@mimsy.UUCP>
Date: Sat, 24-Oct-87 18:32:17 EST
Article-I.D.: mimsy.9090
Posted: Sat Oct 24 18:32:17 1987
Date-Received: Wed, 28-Oct-87 02:08:13 EST
References: <482@cos.COM> <484@cos.COM>
Organization: U of Maryland, Dept. of Computer Science, Coll. Pk., MD 20742
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Keywords: dump/restore, smaller fs

In article <484@cos.COM> asp@COS.COM (Andrew S. Partan) writes:
>... Guy Harris [mentioned] ... "restore" has a symbol table that it keeps
>around in the file system it's working on; ... this symbol table can be
>very big ... [but] there is no way to say "put that thing somewhere
>else!".

Ah, but there is such a way.  I had to do it once; I know it works:

First mount the file system to be restored:

	# mount /dev/hp3a /a
	# cd /a

Now mount something with enough room for "restoresymtable":

	# mount /dev/hp4a /tmp

Finally, make a symlink from ./restoresymtable to a file in
that second file system:

	# ln -s /tmp/restoresymtable restoresymtable
	# restore rf ...
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