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From: les@MCS.COM (Leslie Mikesell)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: tar / ft command help
Date: 23 Jul 1996 23:33:48 -0500
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In article <4ss83o$dn@brians-pc.brians-domain.com>,
Brian Bayorgeon <root@brians-domain.com> wrote:
>
>when I issue the [tar cvzf - / | ft "full backup"] command, will
>tar recurse into the other file systems such as /var and /usr??

Yes, but if you prefer to store each file system separately, GNUtar
has the --one-file-system option to keep it from crossing mount points.

Les Mikesell
  les@mcs.com