At 1:03 PM -0500 4/27/06, Mike McCarty wrote: >Gordon Messmer wrote: >> Mike McCarty wrote: >> >>> Arthur Pemberton wrote: >>> >>>> >>>> I took a quick look at the docs on 'dump' it seems to say that it is >>>> for ext3 file systems no? If so, how do you dump to smb server on >>> >>> >>> No. The dump command dumps any UNIX like file system, any file system >>> based on inodes. The one shipped with Linux is the GNU/Free Software >>> Foundation dump, which apparently can only dump ext2/ext3 file systems. >> >> >> It would probably be more accurate to say that most filesystems have a >> "dump" program that supports them. "The" dump command on Linux only >> supports ext2/3. ReiserFS, for example, has no dump command at all. XFS >> uses "xfsdump", which isn't packaged in FC5. > >Well, since you want to pick nits, "Linux" has no "dump" at all, >since it's just a kernel. So you're wrong. > >As I said, the one which ships with Fedora Core is the GNU/Free >Software Foundation dump which supports ext2 and ext3, and this >is accurate. > >GNU is not Linux. Looking at the dump manpage and at the project on Sourceforge, I don't see the GNU project mentioned. There isn't a real info page, but rather a copy of the man page. dump.sourceforge.net says. "This is the home page of the Linux Ext2 filesystem dump/restore utilities." I'd say that dump is not a GNU project ____________________________________________________________________ TonyN.:' <mailto:tonynelson@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> ' <http://www.georgeanelson.com/>
