Retry your tar, but this time, create a file called "excludes", and put /sys, /proc, etc into it. Then use -X /path/to/excludes as a parameter on your tar command line. > I'm having a few problems that I hope you'll be able to help me with. > First > I'll explain what I'm trying to do. > > I have 2 drives in my computer an 80GB and a 200GB. At the moment > everything is on the smaller drive which is using LVM. What I want to do > is > to have /home on the larger drive and to remove LVM and repartition the > smaller one so that I can try out other distros and to put F7 on when it > comes out. > > At my local Linux user group we tried to do a backup of the small drive to > the larger one in a tar so that I could then repartition the drive. This > failed because it tried to backup /sys, /proc and other folders that > couldn't be backed up. I have tried umounting /proc, but get told that > Couldn't umount /proc Inappropriate ioctl for device. > > So, my questions: > 1) how can I backup all my data to the larger drive > 2) remove LVM > > > -- > fedora-list mailing list > fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx > To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list > -- Mike Burger http://www.bubbanfriends.org Visit the Dog Pound II BBS telnet://dogpound2.citadel.org or http://dogpound2.citadel.org To be notified of updates to the web site, visit: https://www.bubbanfriends.org/mailman/listinfo/site-update or send a blank email message to: site-update-subscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
