Re: DUMP: bad sblock magic number

[Ted Unangst <tedu@zeitbombe.org>]

On Sat, 14 Feb 2004, Tony Del Porto wrote:

> So I've looked in the archives, man pages, and FAQs and can't figure 
> out why the following happens. If I missed something, please beat me 
> with the clue bat.
> 
> I have two IDE disks in an OpenBSD 3.4-stable box, one of which came 
> from a Linux system and is formated ext2fs. I have /home on an ext2fs 
> formatted partition and can't dump it to tape:
> 
> $ sudo /sbin/dump -0au -d 54000 -f /dev/nrst0 /dev/rwd1k
>    DUMP: Date of this level 0 dump: Sat Feb 14 16:20:31 2004
>    DUMP: Date of last level 0 dump: the epoch
>    DUMP: Dumping /dev/rwd1k to /dev/nrst0
>    DUMP: bad sblock magic number
>    DUMP: The ENTIRE dump is aborted.

dump only works for ffs partitions.

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