On Tue, 2010-04-06 at 11:20 -0700, George R Goffe wrote: > Howdy, > > Thanks to all who responded, these responses are DEFINITELY > appreciated. > > I tried everything suggested with no change in behavior. I would like > to try the "new" version of dump/restore but am unable to locate the > code. I tried using the rawhide repo and installing dump but that > didn't work either. > > Any thoughts/hints/tips/suggestions would be welcome. > > Regards, > > George... > > > "It's not what you know that hurts you, It's what you know that ain't > so." Wil Rogers > Hi George Did you get my two emails replicated below ? John ####################################################### Hi George This is what I did to install the latest dump/restore on F12 when communicating with Stelian the dump/restore developer The full story is in the bugzilla http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&aid=2964667&group_id=1306&atid=101306 My understanding is that the later versions of e2fsprogs mean that dump/restore will support ext4. I am not absolutely certain that it was necessary to install the later e2fsprogs. BIG words of warning 1. e2fsprogs is used everywhere !!!! replacing it may destroy your system !!!! 2. e2fsprogs-1.41.11.tar.gz is now available. I did the tests with the older version but now have used the latest 3. The one that really caught me out was blkid !!!! e2fsprogs-1.41.11 installs an old version of blkid the "standard" one on F12 is contained in util-linux-ng. Copy the util-linux-ng version of blkid and restore after installing e2fsprogs This caused me great grief when using grub2 - I couldn't boot! grub2 uses blkid -o udev to determine the boot device - this option is not available in the old version of blkid 4. Take care with selinux - see the bugzilla ---------------------------------------- Down loaded e2fsprogs-1.41.10.tar.gz; Dated 10_Feb_2010 mkdir build; cd build ../configure;make;make check;make install All seemed clean Down loaded dump/restore from http://dump.sourceforge.net/ cvs -d:pserver:anonymous@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx:/cvsroot/dump login cvs -z3 -d:pserver:anonymous@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx:/cvsroot/dump co dump ./configure; make; make install gave errors needed to hack "all"Makefiles changing MANOWNER from man to root - must be a better way !! (Add man to /etc/passwd?) All seemed clean [root@hawaii ~]# dump --help dump: invalid option -- '-' dump 0.4b42 (using libext2fs 1.41.10 of 10-Feb-2009) ######### I assume it means 2010 !!!!! ---------------------------------------- My dump/restore was then clean I just have a feeling that fsarchiver is a later tool and it seems straight forward to use. There is a warning that it is still "experimental" but I have had not had any problems (that I know about !) http://www.fsarchiver.org/Main_Page Any feedback from your contact with Gene would be interesting Good luck John ####################################################### Correction !! It is F12 dracut that uses the blkid command when building the initramfs... used by grub during boot and hence both grub and grub2 are affected !! be careful !! (I am learning/changing over to ext4 and grub2 on my machines) John -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
