Date: Sat, 1 Mar 2003 23:01:04 +0000 From: Scott Mitchell <scott+freebsd@fishballoon.org> To: Dick Hoogendijk <dick@nagual.st> Cc: freebsd-questions <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: dump exept "dir" Message-ID: <20030301230104.GA64302@tuatara.fishballoon.org> In-Reply-To: <20030301175610.GA16704@pooh.nagual.st> References: <20030301175610.GA16704@pooh.nagual.st>
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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
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