2001-10-25 15:19:10

by Eduardo Cortés

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Subject: tar corrupt ext2?

I read that dump could corrupt ext2 in 2.4.x . could a full backup dump by
tar corrupt a ext2 filesystem?
thanks


2001-10-28 12:41:41

by Erik Mouw

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Subject: Re: tar corrupt ext2?

On Thu, Oct 25, 2001 at 05:19:24PM +0200, Eduardo Cort?s wrote:
> I read that dump could corrupt ext2 in 2.4.x . could a full backup dump by
> tar corrupt a ext2 filesystem?

No.


Erik

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