Jeff Kalchik wrote: > >> I have compiled bacula-fd on an HP-UX machine. When I went to run the >> director located on a Debian machine I get messages like "/home is a >> different filesystem. Will not descend from / into /home" >> I also get this message on /opt, /usr, /var, /stand. >> >> It was able to descend into /sbin, /etc. >> >> Any ideas as to why? > > Wait a second, gang. While I do see some replies that may (or may not) > apply, I think there's something here that is more fundamental. > > Mike, most U**x systems are split up into a number of different volumes. > This is done for a variety of reasons, both performance and security > related. One of the biggest reasons is that root is the *ONLY* user who > should have general write access to the top level volume. Yes, there may > be minor exceptions such as /etc/tnsnames.ora. One major reason for this > is that if the root filesystem fills up, unix systems tend to get very > unhappy and start screaming at the system administrators. To avoid these > problems, directories such as /var, /usr, /opt, etc. get their own > dedicated disk space. If /opt fills up, yes, it's a problem, but it won't > crash the box. > > Now, back to the original question. Backup systems tend to really pay > attention to volume boundaries. This is exactly what Bacula is doing. > It's letting you know that /usr, /var, /stand, etc. are on different > volumes. /sbin and /etc are always part of the root volume, because > they're required for single user mode operation, where none of the other > volumes may be mounted or available. This really isn't an error, but it > is letting you know that you do need to address the situation by either > including these other mountpoints in include directives, or by using onefs > (as a couple of other folks have kindly pointed out.) > > Jeff Kalchik > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > This SF.net email is sponsored by DB2 Express > Download DB2 Express C - the FREE version of DB2 express and take > control of your XML. No limits. Just data. Click to get it now. > http://sourceforge.net/powerbar/db2/ > _______________________________________________ > Bacula-users mailing list > Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users > > Jeff, you are correct, you must indicate all mounts points not just "/" unless you specify onefs=yes. If you list all the mounts points you will still get the message error, which is annoying, because you still list "/". At least I do know that it is working now. Thanks, Mike -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Get-Message-About-Different-Filesystem-tf3915281.html#a11104703 Sent from the Bacula - Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by DB2 Express Download DB2 Express C - the FREE version of DB2 express and take control of your XML. No limits. Just data. Click to get it now. http://sourceforge.net/powerbar/db2/ _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
