Messages in this thread | ![/](/images/icornerl.gif) | | Date | Thu, 16 Jan 2003 19:50:02 +0530 | From | Linux Geek <> | Subject | Re: Tar'ing /proc ??? |
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Richard B. Johnson wrote:
>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 >a deadlock when reading kcore and you don't want this in your >backup anyway. > > > > so it means, I can read /proc , write through sysctl interface but no 'copy' business ;-) .
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