On Mon, 2007-10-01 at 09:48 -0700, Daniel B. Thurman wrote: > I am preparing to backup my root drive in preparation > for installing f7. What is the best way to do this? > > I have in /dev/hda as: > > /boot = /dev/hda1 > / = /dev/hda2 > > I have backed up /boot with: tar zcvpf /boot.tgz /boot > > But have get to figure out how to get /dev/hda2 backed up without > picking up the other drives mounted on / If you were backing up via devices, it wouldn't matter what was mounted within it, that's a filing system issue. Tarballs, as you gave the example, are going the filesystem route. You could issue a string of commands just doing certain mount points, rather than all of /. That might be more useful, then you could back up /home and restore parts of /home, for instance. Likewise, you could separately back up /usr, and so on. This is a very bad idea: > No virus found in this outgoing message. > Checked by AVG Free Edition. > Version: 7.5.488 / Virus Database: 269.13.35/1040 - Release Date: 9/30/2007 9:01 PM It encourages people to believe that your mail is safe, when it might not be. You could have a virus attached, but they'd believe it was safe thanks to that writing. It's easily faked (e.g. by something attaching viruses to e-mails), people should do their own testing. A far more sensible message would be: "If this message came with a file, you should test it for viruses." -- (This box runs FC5, my others run FC4 & FC6, in case that's important to the thread.) Don't send private replies to my address, the mailbox is ignored. I read messages from the public lists.
