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Re: dd and xfs

To: Yannick Ribau <yannick.ribau@xxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: dd and xfs
From: Steve Lord <lord@xxxxxxx>
Date: 13 Nov 2001 11:08:10 -0600
Cc: linux-xfs <linux-xfs@xxxxxxxxxxx>
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On Tue, 2001-11-13 at 11:11, Yannick Ribau wrote:
> I just did "man xfsdump", as the partitions are the exact same, I'm not 
> interrested in saving space, but maybe xfsdump will do the job better 
> than dd (if possible) ?

It will only copy the data in the filesystem, not all the unused blocks.

Steve

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