Re: dumpcheck...copy directory too small

From: John Jolet (john.jolet@FXFN.COM)
Date: Fri Dec 19 2003 - 08:00:58 EST


that's the way i read it, yeah.

-----Original Message-----
From: IBM AIX Discussion List [mailto:aix-l@Princeton.EDU]On Behalf Of
Green, Simon
Sent: Friday, December 19, 2003 5:36 AM
To: aix-l@Princeton.EDU
Subject: Re: dumpcheck...copy directory too small

So really it's a fault with dumpcheck?

> -----Original Message-----
> From: John Jolet [mailto:john.jolet@FXFN.COM]
> Sent: 18 December 2003 19:13
> To: aix-l@Princeton.EDU
> Subject: Re: dumpcheck...copy directory too small
>
>
> dump splats, but the dumpcheck script checks AVAILABLE size,
> which is dependant on how much of swap is in use.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: IBM AIX Discussion List [mailto:aix-l@Princeton.EDU]On Behalf Of
> Green, Simon
> Sent: Thursday, December 18, 2003 10:49 AM
> To: aix-l@Princeton.EDU
> Subject: Re: dumpcheck...copy directory too small
>
>
> I believe that you're mistaken. When a dump is written to a
> paging space, it just splats right over the top of it. Perhaps
> dumpcheck doesn't realise this, and is reporting incorrectly.



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