dump is fs-specific. If your dump is for ext2 file systems, it won't understand FAT or FAT32 at all, and bails rahter than risking something. (The specific error is because it is looking for a superblock (or sblock), and the place that ext2 would have put one has something else in FAT, which doesn't make sense as an sblock number)
change the dump type to comp-user-tar, make sure that comp-user-tar has the options you want, and you should be set. Oh, and make sure you have a non-broken version of tar. 1.13.19 is recommended. > -----Original Message----- > From: Tom Beer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Monday, April 22, 2002 2:12 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: dos partion > > > Hi, > > I want to back a dos partition > on a dual boot machine. I mount > this parition /mnt/dos and the disklist > entry is > > vaio.system ad0s1 comp-user > > sendsize.debug states "bad sblock number" > entiry dump terminated. > > Any pointers? > > Thanks Tom >
