RE: backing up a drive's used sectors only with compression

2000-09-19 Thread Karl-Heinz Herrmann
On 19-Sep-00 Rochester Payne wrote: Is there a linux program that I can use to create a compressed file of used sectors that can be used to restore my drive without reinstalling linux .. ... I would like to read fat32 as well as ext2 sectors .. In Linux you don't need the exact sector

Re: backing up a drive's used sectors only with compression

2000-09-19 Thread Alex Shnitman
Hi, Rochester! On Mon, Sep 18, 2000 at 11:45:40PM -0500, you wrote the following: Is there a linux program that I can use to create a compressed file of used sectors that can be used to restore my drive without reinstalling linux .. ... I would like to read fat32 as well as ext2 sectors ..

Re: backing up a drive's used sectors only with compression

2000-09-19 Thread Karl-Heinz Herrmann
Hi Alex, On 19-Sep-00 Alex Shnitman wrote: I don't know about fat32, but for ext2 you should probably use "dump" and "restore" [..] but they store restore a very exact image of the filesystem, down to the inode numbers. So that's what's dump for -- in difference to tar and co. Good top