-- Gabri Mate [EMAIL PROTECTED] On 04:19 Sun 06 Jul , Denny White wrote: > > > 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. > > > > Quoted from Gabri Mate on Sun, Jul 06, 2008 at 09:03:28AM +0200,: > > Yes, looks like this is the problem. > > I've setup /altroot during installation, and i didn't bother editing > > fstab. > > /altroot looks like this: > > > > /dev/wd0d /altroot ffs rw 1 2 > > > > So i should change ffs to xx, right? > > No, you need to read the terminologies a little closer on fstab. > Anyway, it should look like this: > > /dev/wd0d /altroot ffs xx 0 0 > > Mine is on a separate drive. I figure if my main drive craps out, > what good will /altroot on that drive do me. My fstab looks like: > > /dev/wd1a /altroot ffs xx 0 0 > > Hope that helps. You should've cc'd misc@ too, when you wrote back. > Anyway, I don't mind corresponding off list. Also, you'll have to > umount the /altroot too. After that, either wait & see what happens > when daily runs, or run it yourself beforehand, either manually or > change roots crontab temporarily. If that doesn't work, you might > have to reboot. Never ran into that problem before since I had it > set up right from the get go, but that was just luck. I had already > read that part specifically somewhere (can't recall right now) and > was concerned about backups right from the start. Just for my own > curiosity, let me know if you wind up having to reboot for it to > take, okay? ttyl > > > Denny White > > -- > > Bill Gates is a very rich man today... and do you want to know why? > The answer is one word: versions. 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 > =============================================================== > > Thank You!
I'll check it and report back about the need of a reboot. [demime 1.01d removed an attachment of type application/pgp-signature]
