You can certainly put "/" in your disklist as the drive name. Probably /dev/hda6 isn't working because that is not how the drive is mounted in /etc/fstab, rather it is mounted by LABEL=/ or some other such thing.
On Mon, 1 Apr 2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > 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 > > > > > > -- ----- Marc Mengel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
