On Fri, 26 Feb 2010 17:00:22 +0100, Alex Schuster wrote:

> If $old_dir is the root partition, I would bin-mount it first to
> somewhere else, so other directories mounted to it
> (especially/dev, /proc and /sys) are not copied:
> mount -o bind / /mnt
> old_dir=/mnt

Or use the --one-file-system option for tar.


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Neil Bothwick

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