From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Mar 1 15: 1:43 2003 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 A02F837B405 for ; Sat, 1 Mar 2003 15:01:41 -0800 (PST) Received: from mta06-svc.ntlworld.com (mta06-svc.ntlworld.com [62.253.162.46]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6BFE043F93 for ; Sat, 1 Mar 2003 15:01:38 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from scott@fishballoon.org) Received: from fishballoon.org ([80.4.125.54]) by mta06-svc.ntlworld.com (InterMail vM.4.01.03.27 201-229-121-127-20010626) with ESMTP id <20030301230136.WDKB277.mta06-svc.ntlworld.com@fishballoon.org>; Sat, 1 Mar 2003 23:01:36 +0000 Received: from tuatara.fishballoon.org (tuatara [192.168.1.6]) by fishballoon.org (8.12.3/8.12.3) with ESMTP id h21N1Fh9058324; Sat, 1 Mar 2003 23:01:15 GMT (envelope-from scott@tuatara.fishballoon.org) Received: (from scott@localhost) by tuatara.fishballoon.org (8.12.7/8.12.7/Submit) id h21N14kL057005; Sat, 1 Mar 2003 23:01:04 GMT (envelope-from scott) Date: Sat, 1 Mar 2003 23:01:04 +0000 From: Scott Mitchell To: Dick Hoogendijk Cc: freebsd-questions Subject: Re: dump exept "dir" Message-ID: <20030301230104.GA64302@tuatara.fishballoon.org> References: <20030301175610.GA16704@pooh.nagual.st> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20030301175610.GA16704@pooh.nagual.st> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 4.7-STABLE i386 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sat, Mar 01, 2003 at 06:56:10PM +0100, Dick Hoogendijk wrote: > I want to dump a mountpoint *EXEPT* for a specific directory (a vmware > windows machine). The manual talks about skipping inodes (or the > directory inode) but I'm a bit confused on this matter. > > How exactly do I skip a complete directory in dump? Check out the 'nodump' option to chflags(8) and the '-h' option to dump. You should be able to set the nodump flag on your vmware directory and have dump ignore it and everything below it. You'll need to specify '-h0' on the dump command line for nodump to be honoured for a level 0 dump. Cheers, Scott -- =========================================================================== Scott Mitchell | PGP Key ID | "Eagles may soar, but weasels Cambridge, England | 0x54B171B9 | don't get sucked into jet engines" scott at fishballoon.org | 0xAA775B8B | -- Anon To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message