On Sun, Nov 22, 2020 at 08:47:33PM -0700, Chris Murphy wrote: > ext4 I think it has some kind of dump facility but the man page for > dumpe2fs doesn't look like it does that. So I'm not sure.
dumpe2fs is for dumping the filesystem information for ext2/3/4. The package name for the filesystem dump/restore is appropriately named 'dump' and contains a 'dump' and 'restore' executable. The advantages of being there before the others. :) 'dump' is probably the most appropriate tool to capture an ext4 volume to be converted to a thin-provisioned volume. Tar could also work as long as you capture all the extended (selinux) attributes, which I don't believe were described in the other post. dump/restore will only copy the data (and not unused blocks) and it reads the filesystem directly rather than going through the VFS layer. -- Jonathan Billings <billi...@negate.org> _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@lists.fedoraproject.org
