From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jul 3 12:56:41 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DF8F337B405 for ; Thu, 3 Jul 2003 12:56:41 -0700 (PDT) Received: from asarian-host.net (mail.asarian-host.net [194.109.160.70]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9DAD343F3F for ; Thu, 3 Jul 2003 12:56:40 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from admin@asarian-host.net) Comments: To protect the identity of the sender, certain header fields are either not shown, or masked. Anonymous email accounts can be requested by filling in the appropriate form at: https://asarian-host.net/cgi-bin/signup.cgi Received: (from root@localhost) by mail.asarian-host.net (8.12.9/8.12.9) id h63Jud2e029793 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Thu, 3 Jul 2003 21:56:39 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from admin@asarian-host.net) From: Mark Message-Id: <200307031956.H63JUCPC029784@asarian-host.net> Date: Thu, 03 Jul 2003 19:56:39 GMT X-Authenticated-Sender: admin@asarian-host.net X-Trace: t3IJvwYZibPlP4aeFwzq7v/ODyGS12PONondFwvm8myXkerR+Eb+nH1qaSMDE+yEs0x6esmGisTHdFdMOZcyPQ== X-Complaints-To: abuse@asarian-host.net X-Abuse-Info: Please be sure to forward a copy of ALL headers X-Abuse-Info: Otherwise we are unable to process your complaint Organization: Asarian-host To: References: <200307031115.H63BFEAN058242@asarian-host.net> <20030703112321.GA58208@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1165 X-Auth: Asarian-host PGP signature iQEVAwUAPwSKdzFqW1BleBN9AQHDuwf/TH2pUnDoQ1McFwxKDsVC1hICxENM3iRu 9N75KKtLIAcfGdH5ijOO2KbPdYwHIXfIodpXkXFjnSsm/5FOnORgo+6IwXxLdShk q21cFv7zcxcZYlszb49MSiPyS8ITMjlD3FG5seCzXOUZDfZwato1xLZWUvC5S7uE r9GHwOL7cqZSTDQucQ3yiT6WLT6ZnjkAMQuZqltLSKRA2sB+DxEC7d366k5d9TMT OOJXwcmyGmQijdN8bbu+QiX0Crx3oX/+CAKNwDzzOpwazet+6ab2Q0xlXBAWuxkH eBEUSvwXAm6fhvwxsueVrV7PsOk3PEmdIlWIYn+0EaEROXpgytpP3w== =rqS5 Subject: Re: A "softupdates" problem? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 03 Jul 2003 19:56:42 -0000 ----- Original Message ----- From: "Matthew Seaman" To: "Mark" Cc: Sent: Thursday, July 03, 2003 1:23 PM Subject: Re: A "softupdates" problem? > Hmmm... not an answer to the question you asked, but does > not: > # chflags nodump your-very-large-file > in combination with using the '-h 0' flag to dump(8) let you backup > the partition without including the file in question? Thanks for the suggestion. :) I will use that. - Mark