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Subject: Re: mtree spec
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> From owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org  Tue Jan  8 07:35:39 2013
> Date: Tue, 08 Jan 2013 08:32:17 -0500
> From: Fbsd8 <fbsd8@a1poweruser.com>
> To: FreeBSD questions <questions@freebsd.org>
> Subject: mtree spec
>
> I have this mtree specification file
>
> /set type=dir uname=root gname=wheel
> .
> etc
> ..
> root
> ..
> usr
> local
> etc
> ..
> ..
> ..
> ..
>
> But I want to have it behave a little differently.
> What I am after is etc has to be present and any sub-directories off of 
> etc is not a error. Same thing for for root and usr/local/etc
>

The answers to those issues are found in 'man mtree'.

IOW, RTFM applies.