On Feb 20, 2007 15:45 -0500, Yassin Hania-CHY002 wrote: > Is there a reason why an ext3 root partition cannot be copied to an > alternate partition using the "dd" command? > The dd is copying the mounted root partition into an alternate partition > that is not mounted. The dd returns success, but the fsck on that > partition fails with errors as follows: You can't use 'dd' because it backs up the journal in an unsafe manner. If you want to do a backup use 'dump'. It won't touch the journal. Cheers, Andreas -- Andreas Dilger Principal Software Engineer Cluster File Systems, Inc. _______________________________________________ Ext3-users mailing list Ext3-users@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/ext3-users
