Whilst on the subject of what not to do, it's almost as much fun as removing /dev/fd from a solaris system only to discover that it's not the floppy disk but the file descriptors for stout, stderr, and so on, as in 2>&1
Henry, when backing up a root filesystem, in general it is best to avoid backing up the following: dev (other people may disagree but you can always restore these from the CDROM) lost+found mnt net proc tmp (should not contain anything worthwhile) There are some files in /var which may be in use at the time, so if you had to restore them the results may be not quite like what you expect. man fuser Regards, Jill -- Jill Rowling, Snr Des. Eng. & Unix System Administrator Eng. Systems Dept, Aristocrat Technologies Australia Level 2, 55 Mentmore Ave Rosebery NSW 2018 Phone: (02) 9697-4484 Fax: (02) 9663-1412 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -----Original Message----- From: Jeff Waugh [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, 18 February 2002 12:41 To: henry Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [SLUG] tar /proc <quote who="henry"> > I cant "tar zcvf /proc.tgz /proc " , I always get msg like "exit by > previous error" . just behind this line "tar /proc/exe" . I want to > backup /proc for minimizing my slackware , how could I bypass of the > error ? ---------------------- CONFIDENTIALITY NOTICE ---------------------- This email is intended only to be read or used by the addressee. The information contained in this e-mail message may be confidential information. If you are not the intended recipient, any use, interference with, distribution, disclosure or copying of this material is unauthorised and prohibited. Confidentiality attached to this communication is not waived or lost by reason of the mistaken delivery to you. If you have received this message in error, please delete it and notify us by return e-mail or telephone Aristocrat Technologies Australia Pty Limited on +61 2 9413 6300. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
