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Quoted from Gabri Mate on Sun, Jul 06, 2008 at 02:25:55AM +0200,: > Hey There List, > > I've made an /altroot partition, exactly the same size as my /, and it > is also mounted. I've put ROOTBACKUP=1 in root's crontab, but my / > partition doesn't get dumped on /altroot at the daily cron's run. I have > 4.3 release. > Is there something i'm missing? > -- > Gabri Mate > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > [demime 1.01d removed an attachment of type application/pgp-signature] > Read this portion of /etc/daily: # If ROOTBACKUP is set to 1 in the environment, and # if filesystem named /altroot is type ffs, on /dev/* and mounted "xx", # use it as a backup root filesystem to be updated daily. And, if you read fstab(5) you'll see this: "If fs_type is specified as ``xx'' the entry is ignored." So, fs_type should be xx in your fstab, right? You didn't include your fstab, but that sounds like what the problem is; i.e., you don't have that in yours and altroot is mounting normally. Denny White - -- People who want to share their religious views with you almost never want you to share yours with them. Dave Barry All messages scanned by ClamAssassin http://jameslick.com/clamassassin/ =============================================================== GnuPG key : 0x1644E79A | http://wwwkeys.nl.pgp.net Fingerprint: D0A9 AD44 1F10 E09E 0E67 EC25 CB44 F2E5 1644 E79A =============================================================== iD8DBQFIcDW2y0Ty5RZE55oRAqsVAJ96+68TjUYwuLEjHTkZa6StJyVqqgCgq024 6pLl6b4TuwcJ82XW9msbsJ0= =sb4L -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
