Gentoo Archives: gentoo-user

From: Neil Bothwick <neil@××××××××××.uk>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Using tar to backup my system
Date: Fri, 04 Nov 2005 22:57:54
Message-Id: 20051104225226.5b4ea3db@hactar.digimed.co.uk
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Using tar to backup my system by Richard Fish
1 On Fri, 04 Nov 2005 11:29:51 -0700, Richard Fish wrote:
2
3 > It has one major advantage regarding udev, in that some device nodes
4 > (/dev/console, for example) must exist in the /dev directory on the
5 > root filesystem, and when /dev is mounted and you use --one-filesystem,
6 > you won't backup those nodes. Binding / somewhere else let's you
7 > backup what is really on the root filesystem, so you will restore those
8 > device nodes when recovering from a live CD.
9
10 Good point.
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14 Neil Bothwick
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16 Real women don't have hot flashes, they have power surges.

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