dump and ext3

Stuart Sears stuart at sjsears.com
Wed Jun 30 17:16:33 UTC 2004


Malcolm Kay wrote:

>Coming from a BSD background I've recently installed RH9
>on a couple of machines and now want to make backups.
>
>However I find that the default installation results in 
>ext3 file systems but the man pages tell me that dump 
>and restore are for ext2 systems.
>
>Where can I obtain dump and restore for ext3?
>
>Malcolm
>  
>
dump works equally well for ext3 as it does for ext2 because they are by 
and large identical.
i.e. ext3 = ext2 + journal.

Stuart





More information about the redhat-list mailing list