On Mon, Nov 23, 2020 at 9:27 AM Jonathan Billings <billings(a)negate.org>
wrote:
'dump' is probably the most appropriate tool to capture an ext4 volume
to be converted to a thin-provisioned volume. Tar could also work as
long as you capture all the extended (selinux) attributes, which I
don't believe were described in the other post. dump/restore will
only copy the data (and not unused blocks) and it reads the filesystem
directly rather than going through the VFS layer.
I have never used dumpe2fs.
How does it compare to partclone ?
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Regards,
Sreyan Chakravarty