Matthias Bethke wrote:
Don't do that. It will appear to work but usually introduces subtle
inconsistencies in the FS structure that fsck may or may not catch,
especially when there's constant FS activity like on a mail server. This
is only safe for partitions that are mounted read-only.
I haven't done anything like this, and I'd think it's not really
necessary when you have several machines available anyway (each usually
with several partitions, unlike Windows where that's a necessary
feature) but I'd suggest dump(1). dump can exclude inodes, so something
like
touch dumpfile
dump -f- -e$(ls -i dumpfile | sed 's/ [[:alpha:]]\+//') /some/mount/point
should do roughly what you want. If you use EXT[23] FS that is...
Uhm, no, I'm using ReiserFS, it's the same xyntax? Or maybe dump does
not work with reiser file system?
Regards, Luca.
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