Hard Drive Reshuffle
Steven Elling
ellings at kcnet.com
Fri Apr 18 17:10:52 CDT 2003
On Friday 18 April 2003 09:46, Gerald Combs wrote:
> Dump:
>
> dump 0f - <source> | (cd <destination> ; ufsrestore xf - )
>
> Notes:
>
- Used to dump ext2/3 file systems only.
> - Not recommended on Linux 2.4 or later kernels, unfortunately.
> - Source can be a device path - you can dump unmounted partitions.
> - Solaris commands are 'ufsdump' and 'ufsrestore'. Other OSes have
> similar names for specific filesystems, e.g. xfsdump and advsdump.
- Does not work with reiser file systems and there is no equivalent.
Use tar instead.
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