Dump Command?

Warren Block wblock at wonkity.com
Sat Jan 19 18:43:05 PST 2008


On Sat, 19 Jan 2008, Chris Maness wrote:

> Is it possible to dump a file system except for a specified directory?  Or 
> does the dump command require that the WHOLE file system is dumped?  I 
> remember gtar being able to negate archiving specific files.

See the dump man page for the "nodump" flag, which can be set with 
chflags(1).

-Warren Block * Rapid City, South Dakota USA


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