On Thu, Nov 22, 2007 at 10:17:50AM -0800, Gil Vidals wrote: > After thinking a bit more on this, for bare-metal recovery, it seems logical > that I MUST include every directory. I shouldn't leave anything out since > the recovery process outlined below never calls for re-loading the OS. > > Traditionally, the OS is reloaded and then the files are restored, but in > bare-metal recovery, the step of reloading the OS is skipped. So then, if I > don't create /tmp and /proc for example, how will these be created? Does > linux automatically create these if it detects they are missing? >
/tmp is just what its name implies, temporary files. Nothing in /tmp is needed by the OS across a reboot. No user files in /tmp are guarenteed to be available across a reboot. Some admins routinely do a rm -r /tmp/* early in the boot process. This traditionally is/was the norm for Solaris. /proc is totally pseudo. It contains only file pertaining to currently running processes. After a reboot what value would it be to know process 1234 "was owned by jon and was running in the /home/jon directory"? Process 1234 is not there any longer. Had it died 1 second before shutdown the files would have existed anyway. -- Jon H. LaBadie [EMAIL PROTECTED] JG Computing 4455 Province Line Road (609) 252-0159 Princeton, NJ 08540-4322 (609) 683-7220 (fax)
