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On Tue, 2007-09-04 at 18:51 +0300, Danny Braniss wrote:
> dump start out nicely, but then it justs hangs.
> have tried it with different file systems, the output
> is also a file, again tried it with different file system.
> the only way it works is if the output file is /dev/null (very
> fast, but not realy helpful :-)

When it hangs, what is printed when you send it a CTRL-T?

Gavin