Date: Fri, 18 Nov 2011 20:08:23 -0800 From: perryh@pluto.rain.com To: kirk@strauser.com Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, bonomi@mail.r-bonomi.com Subject: Re: Shouldn't GNU tar be ignoring /proc with --one-file-system? Message-ID: <4ec72bb7.60UNRXR3r2vSHeGC%perryh@pluto.rain.com> In-Reply-To: <92484812-3407-4A4B-B1BB-E0B5F3EDD06C@strauser.com> References: <201111181727.pAIHR9XZ057564@mail.r-bonomi.com> <92484812-3407-4A4B-B1BB-E0B5F3EDD06C@strauser.com>
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Kirk Strauser <kirk@strauser.com> wrote: > On Nov 18, 2011, at 11:27 AM, Robert Bonomi wrote: > > > See the output of 'mount(8)' for the names of all the mounted > > filesystems on your machine. > > $ mount | grep proc > procfs on /proc (procfs, local) > > > *NOTE*WELL* that '/proc' is *not* a separate filesystem. It > > is merely a _directory_ with a bunch of 'special' files in it. > > I'm confused here. In what way isn't /proc a separate filesystem? > It's even called "procfs". It's Bonomi who is confused. I suspect he doesn't have procfs configured -- so of course its mountpoint is just a directory -- *on his system*. The OP _does_ have procfs configured, or the question wouldn't have arisen.
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