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From: Bruce Feist
Date: Wed, 26 Apr 1995 00:00

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Hello, All;

I have two LINUX partitions and one MS-DOS partition.  The MS-DOS
partition is visible under Linux as well; it's mounted as /dosc.  I
want to back up my root Linux partition, without including either of
the other two.  When I try to do this by saying

tar -c -l -v -V "Root backup" /*

it tries to back up the other partitions (at least the MS-DOS
partition) as well as the root one.  I thought that the -l option
should have prevented that.

Am I confused, or is it?  Is there some other technique that I should
try to accomplish this?

Thanks,
Bruce
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