From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([69.77.167.62] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1LOIRW-0003zt-HW for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sat, 17 Jan 2009 21:10:58 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id A1D06E027D; Sat, 17 Jan 2009 21:10:55 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail.digimed.co.uk (82-69-83-178.dsl.in-addr.zen.co.uk [82.69.83.178]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 56AD8E027D for ; Sat, 17 Jan 2009 21:10:55 +0000 (UTC) Received: from krikkit (krikkit.digimed.co.uk [192.168.1.3]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mail.digimed.co.uk (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id F36C845694C for ; Sat, 17 Jan 2009 21:10:53 +0000 (GMT) Date: Sat, 17 Jan 2009 21:10:44 +0000 From: Neil Bothwick To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] More on /sys files Message-ID: <20090117211044.6224de81@krikkit> In-Reply-To: <87tz7y2cev.fsf@newsguy.com> References: <87tz7y2cev.fsf@newsguy.com> Organization: Digital Media Production X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.7.0cvs34 (GTK+ 2.14.7; i686-pc-linux-gnu) X-GPG-Fingerprint: 7260 0F33 97EC 2F1E 7667 FE37 BA6E 1A97 4375 1903 Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="Sig_/mYBNTw28tAWoMnpi92PPakV"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=PGP-SHA1 X-Archives-Salt: bb76a535-b512-499a-bfc9-9d771e7cae47 X-Archives-Hash: 1905e95d368cc52034a6833c585fcb65 --Sig_/mYBNTw28tAWoMnpi92PPakV Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Sat, 17 Jan 2009 09:13:44 -0600, Harry Putnam wrote: > I'm in the process of rsyncing an OS to a remote file system. >=20 > when rsyncing /sys to remote /sys... I get piles of errors /sys is a virtual filesystem, like /dev and /proc. Even if you do succeed on copying the contents,you'll only waste space on the root partition of the new machine and the virtual filesystems will get mounted over them. On my desktop, one file in /proc is more that ten times the size of the root filesystem! Use the -x option with rsync to prevent copying these.=20 --=20 Neil Bothwick Yes, I am an agent of Satan, but my duties are largely ceremonial. --Sig_/mYBNTw28tAWoMnpi92PPakV Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=signature.asc -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.9 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAklySVkACgkQum4al0N1GQPVQwCaAmYyVwUVow9c3VdvKJhu4H4O Y0kAn0UvPZhIsXCbvOjBeLE8irVJvyFX =8VGL -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Sig_/mYBNTw28tAWoMnpi92PPakV--