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List:       linux-dump-users
Subject:    Re: [Dump-users] Bad magic number in super-block while opening
From:       Marc Thomas <marc () dragonfly ! plus ! com>
Date:       2003-09-12 12:36:58
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Hi Frank,

The problem you've got is because dump does not work with "reiserfs"
filesystems, only ext2 & ext3.

You'll need to either change your filesystem type (destructive), or use
another backup utility.

Regards,

Marc

On Thu, 11 Sep 2003, Frank Woelk wrote:

> Hi,
>
> after installing a new linux box I got those errors
> when running a simple dump:
>
> woelkix6:~ # dump -0aL TEST /
>
>   DUMP: Date of this level 0 dump: Thu Sep 11 17:00:10 2003
>   DUMP: Dumping /dev/hda2 (/) to /dev/tape
> /dev/hda2: Bad magic number in super-block while opening filesystem
>   DUMP: The ENTIRE dump is aborted.
>
> SUSE Linux 8.2
> dump 0.4b33 (using libext2fs 1.28 of 31-Aug-2002)
>
> Fragment of fstab:
> /dev/hda2       /       reiserfs        defaults 1 1
>
>
> Running it on a SUSE 6.4 with dump 0.4b15 on an
> /dev/sda3       /       ext2    defaults 1 1
> works fine !
>
>
> Any ideas ?
>
> CU
> ---
> Frank



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