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