Martin Boulianne wrote:
Maybe this is a dumb question, but I was wondering if I could use
dump (and restore) on Windows NTFS partitions.
Say I have a NTFS partition, ad0s1. Could I use:
# dump -b 4 -f /backups/winxp.dump /dev/ad0s1
No. Dump is specific to ufs/ufs2 filesystems. It specifically knows
the format of the filesystem (superblocks, inodes, directories etc).
You just get an error if you try:
(cartman)103% dump -0 -f /tmp/foo /windows
DUMP: Date of this level 0 dump: Wed Jan 30 15:23:25 2008
DUMP: Date of last level 0 dump: the epoch
DUMP: Dumping /dev/ad4s1 (/windows) to /tmp/foo
DUMP: Cannot find file system superblock
DUMP: The ENTIRE dump is aborted.
I don't know if there are NTFS utils running on FreeBSD that could do
similar - others may, or search the ports for NTFS related software and
see what the pkg-descr files say.
--Alex
PS A question is only dumb if you ask the same one repeatedly. This
question might demonstrate some ignorance, but we were all ignorant once
and questions are one of the best cures! IMHO, of course. (In the
computer world, manuals are another cure but the page for dump was
written when UFS was the *only* filesystem that worked on BSD, so fails
to actually answer your question).
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