Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 8 May 1997 00:52:35 +0200 | From | Martin von Loewis <> | Subject | Re: 2.0.30+: "local" or why doesn't tar -l and cp -x work? |
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> I want to NOT include /proc when I am using tar to back things up, but > specifying the -l switch still will backup every mounted filesystem. > What is wrong with both tar and cp, or libc, or with the kernel such that > this doesn't work?
It works fine for me: tar -lvcf /dev/null / won't touch /proc or any other mounted file system. tar is 1.11.8 Linux is 2.1.36 libc is glibc 2.0.2
Regards, Martin
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