Unable to dump the filesystem by xfsdump command in Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Issue
- why xfsdump command fails with error
Inappropriate ioctl for device
xfsdump: unable to determine uuid of fs mounted at /mnt/Data: Inappropriate ioctl for device
Environment
- Red Hat Enterprise linux 7
- xfs
- ext4
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