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Title: Backup with dump fails

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Backup with dump fails

Symptom:

You want to perform a backup of your system with the command dump. You receive something like the following error message:
/dev/sda6: ext2 inode is not a directory while mapping files in /dev/hda2

Cause:

The filesystem you want to save is not entered in /etc/fstab

Solution:

Enter the filesystem you want to save in the file /etc/fstab. You should also read the man pages for dump with the command
man 8 dump

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Keywords: BACKUP, DUMP, FSTAB

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