Randy Kelsoe wrote:
Mike Noble wrote:
Depending on the file system that you have(ext2,ext3....)
I would recommend dump or cpio. If you have a tape drive
attached (lets say /dev/st0) you can use the following
dump command:
dump 0uf /dev/st0 /
This will dump the entire contents of the / file system
to the tape drive.
You can then restore from tape with the command restore.
So, has dump been fixed? Last I heard (and it was a while ago), Linus
said if you used dump, you WOULD have data corruption.
I just used dump to move the OS from one partition to another
one and it worked just fine. Now I will say that this was
done with Mandrake Linux dump, but dump should be the same
for either Mandrake, Fedora, debian....).
Mike
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