On Sun, 23 Jan 2005 at 9:19pm, Nick Danger wrote

> Did that and sure enough, there it was. Dump error on /dev/hda2. Why? 
> Reiserfs is not dump-able? News to me. Argh!!

Every 'dump' program is FS specific, as they generally look at the disk 
directly, not through the FS, and therefore need to know how the FS is 
laid out.  Dump on Linux is for ext2/3.  Reiser doesn't have a 'dump' 
program.  Neither does JFS, AFAIK, but XFS does (xfsdump, of course).

-- 
Joshua Baker-LePain
Department of Biomedical Engineering
Duke University