On Thu, Jun 02, 2005 at 09:23:34PM +0200, Alexander Jolk wrote: > Cameron Matheson wrote: > > >it's similar to my other clients which are all working > >fine... why would it be sending this tar command? (the > >other clients are all having '/' be their directory) > > Actually, I thought that you could give either a device name or a > directory, and amanda would convert either one to whatever is needed > for your dump program (device for DUMP, path for GNUTAR). Apparently, > this doesn't work out in your case; I remember there having been a bug > some time ago, but I can't recall the specifics. (Anybody remember more > detail here?)
Not the details of the bug. What I was wondering was about /etc/fstab. The translation between device and mounted file system is done, I think, by using the fstab file. Recent practice in linux (at least recent to me) is to use some symbolic tokens in fstab. I see one of my laptop fedora entries is: LABEL=/ / ext3 defaults 1 1 >From that, I've no idea what disk device contains "/". Probably amanda doesn't either. -- Jon H. LaBadie [EMAIL PROTECTED] JG Computing 4455 Province Line Road (609) 252-0159 Princeton, NJ 08540-4322 (609) 683-7220 (fax)