I use Amanda to make nightly backups of a bunch of servers using GNU tar.
However, gtar doesn't seem to respect its --one-file-system flag with /proc.
Amanda runs a variation of this command:
# /usr/local/bin/gtar --create --file - --directory / --one-file-system
--sparse
On Fri, November 18, 2011 10:34 am, Kirk Strauser wrote:
I use Amanda to make nightly backups of a bunch of servers using GNU tar.
However, gtar doesn't seem to respect its --one-file-system flag with
/proc. Amanda runs a variation of this command:
# /usr/local/bin/gtar --create --file -
On Fri, Nov 18, 2011 at 8:59 AM, Daniel Staal dst...@usa.net wrote:
/proc is a file on /. /proc/* are files on /proc. The former is still on
the root filesystem (if only as a directory stub to be used as a
mountpoint), so reading it isn't leaving that filesystem. Reading
anything *in* it
From owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org Fri Nov 18 09:36:09 2011
From: Kirk Strauser k...@strauser.com
Date: Fri, 18 Nov 2011 09:34:18 -0600
To: FreeBSD Questions ML freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject: Shouldn't GNU tar be ignoring /proc with --one-file-system?
I use Amanda to make
On 18/11/2011 17:18, Michael Sierchio wrote:
On Fri, Nov 18, 2011 at 8:59 AM, Daniel Staal dst...@usa.net wrote:
/proc is a file on /. /proc/* are files on /proc. The former is still on
the root filesystem (if only as a directory stub to be used as a
mountpoint), so reading it isn't
On Nov 18, 2011, at 11:27 AM, Robert Bonomi wrote:
See the output of 'mount(8)' for the names of all the mounted filesystems on
your machine.
$ mount | grep proc
procfs on /proc (procfs, local)
*NOTE*WELL* that '/proc' is *not* a separate filesystem. It is merely a
_directory_ with a
On Fri, Nov 18, 2011 at 9:27 AM, Matthew Seaman
m.sea...@infracaninophile.co.uk wrote:
I find it quite astonishing that /proc would deliberately behave
differently to *every other* filesystem available. The mountpoint
should belong to the filesystem mounted on it.
I have an idea what you
On Fri, 18 Nov 2011, Kirk Strauser wrote:
On Nov 18, 2011, at 11:27 AM, Robert Bonomi wrote:
See the output of 'mount(8)' for the names of all the mounted filesystems on
your machine.
$ mount | grep proc
procfs on /proc (procfs, local)
*NOTE*WELL* that '/proc' is *not* a separate
Kirk Strauser k...@strauser.com wrote:
On Nov 18, 2011, at 11:27 AM, Robert Bonomi wrote:
See the output of 'mount(8)' for the names of all the mounted
filesystems on your machine.
$ mount | grep proc
procfs on /proc (procfs, local)
*NOTE*WELL* that '/proc' is *not* a separate
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