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From: mi@rtfm.ziplink.net (Mikhail Teterin)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Hard Disk Maintenance
Date: 22 Apr 1997 02:43:35 GMT
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Honorable J Wunsch
wrote on 19 Apr (in article <5jb0ol$h5d@uriah.heep.sax.de>):
>> 3. If I dump "/", will it dump my other mounted partitions, or do I
>> have to dump them separately?
=
=Since dump works on a per-filesystem basis (and by reading the raw
=device), it'll only dump the / filesystem.
To make dump only dump a particular subtree, one may use
chflags -R nodump /mount_point
chflags -R dump /mount_point/subtree_to_dump
dump ...
This will overwrite the user's nodump/dump flags, though, if you care.
-mi
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