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Re: dd and xfs

To: Yannick Ribau <yannick.ribau@xxxxxxx>, Steve Lord <lord@xxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: dd and xfs
From: Seth Mos <knuffie@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 13 Nov 2001 19:55:18 +0100
Cc: linux-xfs <linux-xfs@xxxxxxxxxxx>
In-reply-to: <3BF15156.9050104@free.fr>
References: <3BF145FE.2050003@free.fr> <1005669205.19062.5.camel@jen.americas.sgi.com>
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At 17:59 13-11-2001 +0100, Yannick Ribau wrote:
So it might work if I boot from a rescue CD with a kernel supporting xfs, then do the dd command without mounting the partitions (using /dev/hda...) ?

Better use xfsdump and be able to compress it with gzip if you want to :-)
Much easier to restore as well. Use the LBT from http://lbt.linuxcare.com/ and do it already :-)


Cheers

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Seth
Every program has two purposes one for which
it was written and another for which it wasn't
I use the last kind.


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