On Fri, 2 Jan 2004, Michael Havens wrote:

> i've been looking through info fstab and it seems that the fifth field has
> something to do with a command called dump. Being the curious guy that I am I
> looke through man dump and that seemed to indicate that it backs up your
> entire system (with the space on your system you have). Where does it save
> it? Is this true?

Like tar, by default, dump writes to tape drive. See the -f switch in the
dump man page. Also, look at the restore man page.

   Jeremy C. Reed
   http://bsd.reedmedia.net/