Date: Mon, 28 May 2007 17:51:09 +0200 From: Roland Smith <rsmith@xs4all.nl> To: Jeffrey Goldberg <jeffrey@goldmark.org> Cc: Jerry McAllister <jerrymc@msu.edu>, questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: How to find disk slice layout Message-ID: <20070528155109.GA10386@slackbox.xs4all.nl> In-Reply-To: <2C5ECA04-E6CD-48BC-B2DA-2B8153EB489D@goldmark.org> References: <4532A9C5-9AA1-42B6-BC29-1FCB98EBC054@goldmark.org> <20070528145326.GC24417@gizmo.acns.msu.edu> <2C5ECA04-E6CD-48BC-B2DA-2B8153EB489D@goldmark.org>
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--n8g4imXOkfNTN/H1 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Mon, May 28, 2007 at 10:38:41AM -0500, Jeffrey Goldberg wrote: > > Note you do not back up the swap partition which is normally 'b' > > and don't do anything to the 'c' partition which is there only to > > describe the slice to the system and is not a true partition. > > You can probably skip backing up your /tmp also. >=20 > What about /dev and /var? I'd backup /var, because it's usually small. And it also contains important things like your port options, and the database of installed packages. =20 Don't bother with /dev though, because devices are dynamically created when they become available. > I also feel that I should have put /usr/ports/distfiles on another file= =20 > system, since I don't particularly care to back up those either. I gues= s I=20 > could just put in a symbolic link to something on /var It depends on how you back up things, but both dump(8) BSD tar(1) can obey the 'nodump' flag. So if you do 'chflags nodump /usr/ports/distfiles', dump will skip that directory (unless you're doing a level 0 dump, in which case you'll need the '-h 0' option). BSD tar will skip files and directories flagged with nodump if you give it the --nodump option. Roland --=20 R.F.Smith http://www.xs4all.nl/~rsmith/ [plain text _non-HTML_ PGP/GnuPG encrypted/signed email much appreciated] pgp: 1A2B 477F 9970 BA3C 2914 B7CE 1277 EFB0 C321 A725 (KeyID: C321A725) --n8g4imXOkfNTN/H1 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.3 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFGWvptEnfvsMMhpyURApPFAKCwgyZJFq2Yh5+Ce+tkjQjUufPPvACfVoiD hSprJZje5JDDwZeYmQ4XP0w= =Bqok -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --n8g4imXOkfNTN/H1--
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