On Sat, 1 Aug 2015 02:35:39 PM John Ettedgui wrote: > >> It seems that you're using Chromium while doing the dump. :) > >> If no CD drive, I'll recommend to use Archlinux installation iso to make > >> a bootable USB stick and do the dump. > >> (just download and dd would do the trick) > >> As its kernel and tools is much newer than most distribution. > > So I did not have any usb sticks large enough for this task (only 4Gb) > so I restarted into emergency runlevel with only / mounted and as ro, > I hope that'll do. The Debian/Jessie Netinst image is about 120M and allows you to launch a shell. If you want a newer kernel you could rebuild the Debian Netinst yourself. Also a basic text-only Linux installation takes a lot less than 4G of storage. I have a couple of 1G USB sticks with Debian installed that I use to fix things. -- My Main Blog http://etbe.coker.com.au/ My Documents Blog http://doc.coker.com.au/ -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-btrfs" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
