Re: the nodump option and excluding files?

2016-06-05 Thread Colin Percival
On 06/05/16 08:25, Graham Percival wrote: > Unfortunately, nodump only refers to single files. ... or directories. Not useful in this case, I just don't want the mailing list archives to be unclear about this. -- Colin Percival Security Officer Emeritus, FreeBSD | The power to serve Founder,

Re: the nodump option and excluding files?

2016-06-05 Thread Graham Percival
Unfortunately, nodump only refers to single files. If you want to exclude every single instance of .DS_Store, then you would either need to set nodump on every single .DS_Store file on your computer, or use the "exclude" method. My apologies for giving you imprecise advice earlier. Instead, I