Mondo Rescue, missingdev,proc,sys 2586
Black Sun and said:
Only 1.5G? That's not a lot of data.
google:--"unix backup and recovery" for a partial overview of things. You know what the main dirs in are for, right? The bootloader and kernel images live inboot , the binaries necessary for getting things up and running once is mounted live inbin andsbin , config files and boot scripts live inetc . usr is where most of the user binaries and many data files for those binaries live. It's often a separate parbreastion. var is for variable data, news spools, mail spools, Apache's DocumentRoot, Postgres-My database files, junk like that, and is often a separate parbreastion. root is root's ~. home is where users' ~s live and is often a separate parbreastion.
I'm writing some code that does a lot of moving around and manipulating stuff inside files. I have trouble debugging it because so much of it is going on in files and I haven't learned...
samantha:~$ mount snip udev ondev type tmpfs (rw,nosuid)
...udev has been mounted. More distros use udev than previously, so check. If you used a fairly old distro, you might just see devfs in there instead. devfs did things in a similar way (dynamically created device nodes) as udev, but details were different. If you're using staticdev , no problem, GNU tar can back up+restore the directory and device nodes.
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