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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