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Date: Thu, 16 Jan 2003 15:06:47 +0100 (CET)
From: Maciej Soltysiak <solt@dns.toxicfilms.tv>
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Subject: Re: Tar'ing /proc ???
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> Normally, you do `tar -clf`
>                         |________ stay on the same file-system.
> Otherwise toy need to use --exclude /proc.  Proc is a virtual
> file-system that contains things like kcore. You can get into
Well i think that besides kcore (and maybe kmem) you should be able
to archive it.

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Maciej Soltysiak

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