Date: Fri, 21 Mar 2008 16:37:43 -0400 From: Lowell Gilbert <freebsd-questions-local@be-well.ilk.org> To: Robert Huff <roberthuff@rcn.com> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: mtree Message-ID: <447ifvzuco.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> In-Reply-To: <18404.6594.388.966783@jerusalem.litteratus.org> (Robert Huff's message of "Fri\, 21 Mar 2008 16\:25\:38 -0400") References: <18404.6594.388.966783@jerusalem.litteratus.org>
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Robert Huff <roberthuff@rcn.com> writes: > I know mtree can be used to describe a directory layout, and > then to re-create that structure. Is there a place where this is > described? I figured out everything I wanted to know from the manual page. It's a pretty good manual -- the reason it gives people trouble is just that there are so *many* different things it can do. In the "EXAMPLES" section of its manual, there is a formula for how to "create an /etc/mtree style BSD.*.dist file" which is the first half of what you want. Offhand, I think "mtree -U" is enough to mash everything back to the way the original specification described.
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