<div dir="ltr"><span class="gmail-im" style="font-size:12.8px">Hi All,</span><div><span class="gmail-im" style="font-size:12.8px"><br></span></div><div><span class="gmail-im" style="font-size:12.8px">Got your email id from Nathan Scott. <br><br>Could you please clarify the reasons behind stating below statement in<br>xfs_metadump man page.<br><br><i>xfs_metadump should not be used for any purposes other than for<br> debugging and reporting filesystem problems<br></i><br>Man page: <a href="http://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man8/xfs_metadump.8.html" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">http://man7.org/linux/man-<wbr>pages/man8/xfs_metadump.8.html</a><br><br>I am trying to encrypt my existing xfs drive (/dev/sda2) and would like to backup metadata using xfs_metadump and restore it back using xfs_mdrestore after encrypting my drive. In order to retain entire contents of my realtime partition (/dev/sda1), I need to perform this step.</span><div><span class="gmail-im" style="font-size:12.8px"><br></span><span style="font-size:12.8px">Can I use xfs_metadump to backup meta-data of xfs and restore it back successfully ?</span><br style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">Why xfs_metadump should be specifically used as debugging tool ? Please clarify ?</span><div><span style="font-size:12.8px"><br clear="all"></span><div><div class="gmail_signature"><div>Thanks in Advance,</div><div>Murali<br></div></div></div>
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