What device is rootfs on for backup via dd
Tilman Baumann
tilman at baumann.name
Mon Jul 21 10:58:46 CEST 2008
Jim Morris wrote:
> Having failed to backup my rootfs via dfutils, I thought maybe I could..
>
> > dd if=/dev/root of=/media/card/backup.bin
>
> But even though mount shows /dev/root as the root device. the actual dev does not exist.
>
> Anyone know what the device name for the actual rootfs is?
Its flash with a JFFS2 filesystem. This is not a block based filesystem.
I don't know if one even can dump these with dd.
There are probably special tools for that.
Use tar or rsync. ;)
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