I have a tar script to back up all directories on my HD (/*) to a mirror disk.
But a puzzler. The script sees all directories mounted on / and backs up their content, but fails to back up the contents of directories that are presumably mounted under /, but are not in the same partition as /. For example, if I specify /* as source, the /bin directory contents are backed up because /bin is in the same partition as /. However, /home has its own partition, and so while tar script creates a /home directory, it is empty. I have to back up /home explicitly. If I run # mount, I see: ... /dev/sda6 on / type ext3 (rw) ... /dev/sda12 on /home type ext3 (rw) Only the contents of sda6 are getting backed up. Haines Brown - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-newbie" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.linux-learn.org/faqs
