need help on how to config root partition in disklist

[ZLiu]

Hi,

I am a relatively new amanda users. I got a problem where I could not
find answers in the exsiting mail archive.

The problem is: in my disklist file I listed

machinename /dev/sda6 root-tar

/dev/sda6 is my root partition and the mount point is /

and I always get the error message about disk offline.

although the following lines work fine.

machinename /dev/sda1 root-tar
machinename /dev/sdb1 high-tar

/dev/sda1 is the /boot partition and /dev/sdb1 is the /home partition.

I checked the sendsize.*.debug file. It looks like that amanda didn't
translate the filesystem names to the right dirname.

A working case will be like:
calculating for amname '/dev/sda1' dirname '/boot'

the failed case looks like
calculating for amname '/dev/sda6' dirname '/dev/sda6'

How could I get around with this?

Can I put "/" instead of "/dev/sda6" in my disklist file? I am
hesitating to do this because I am not sure if I will include
everything ( for example /home which is a separate partition) by
using just /. What I intended to do is only backuping the root
partition.

My OS is RedHat 7.2 and amanda verison 2.4.2p2.

Thanks. zhiwei