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Old 8th August 2008
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Yeah, you're right, I thought dump outputted to stdout by default ... apparently not ... (edited post)

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Does dump write unused space? I know dd does and that always bugged me...
No.
dd just copies a disk/partition/slice and is completely unaware of the filesystem.
dump on the other hand is aware of the filesystem and backs up files (Not 0's and 1's).
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