Neil Bothwick wrote:
On Fri, 4 Nov 2005 17:02:41 +0100, capsel wrote:
Or maybe bind / to a subdir and tar from it. It's like
--one-filesystem but it works always (for me).
Why go to the trouble of mounting / again when tar already has an option
to deal with this?
I don't doubt that it works, but it seems like a long-winded way of doing
things.
It has one major advantage regarding udev, in that some device nodes
(/dev/console, for example) must exist in the /dev directory on the root
filesystem, and when /dev is mounted and you use --one-filesystem, you
won't backup those nodes. Binding / somewhere else let's you backup
what is really on the root filesystem, so you will restore those device
nodes when recovering from a live CD.
-Richard
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