Re: the nodump option and excluding files?

2016-06-05 Thread Graham Percival
Unfortunately, nodump only refers to single files. If you want to exclude every single instance of .DS_Store, then you would either need to set nodump on every single .DS_Store file on your computer, or use the "exclude" method. My apologies for giving you imprecise advice earlier. Instead, I sug

Re: the nodump option and excluding files?

2016-06-05 Thread Colin Percival
On 06/05/16 08:25, Graham Percival wrote: > Unfortunately, nodump only refers to single files. ... or directories. Not useful in this case, I just don't want the mailing list archives to be unclear about this. -- Colin Percival Security Officer Emeritus, FreeBSD | The power to serve Founder, Ta

Re: the nodump option and excluding files?

2016-06-05 Thread Sarah Alawami
> On Jun 5, 2016, at 3:14 PM, Sarah Alawami wrote: > > Yeah agreed. I think I misunderstood that last post I linked to. So, in > regard to the exclude now that i have that set up pretty much the way I want > it, how then would I implement that int eh script(s) I have? > > Take care to all. >>