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Neil Bothwick wrote: |
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>On Fri, 4 Nov 2005 17:02:41 +0100, capsel wrote: |
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>>Or maybe bind / to a subdir and tar from it. It's like |
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>>--one-filesystem but it works always (for me). |
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>Why go to the trouble of mounting / again when tar already has an option |
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>to deal with this? |
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>I don't doubt that it works, but it seems like a long-winded way of doing |
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>things. |
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It has one major advantage regarding udev, in that some device nodes |
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(/dev/console, for example) must exist in the /dev directory on the root |
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filesystem, and when /dev is mounted and you use --one-filesystem, you |
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won't backup those nodes. Binding / somewhere else let's you backup |
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what is really on the root filesystem, so you will restore those device |
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nodes when recovering from a live CD. |
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-Richard |
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