Subj : Re: backing up /dev with tar
To   : comp.os.linux
From : root
Date : Thu Jul 08 2004 04:41 pm

On Thu, 08 Jul 2004 13:41:07 +0000, Julian Bradfield wrote:

> In article <ccji7e$f8g$2@news1.tilbu1.nb.home.nl>,
> R.F. Pels <spamtrap@tiscali.nl> wrote:
>>jfr wrote:
>>
>>> Is this possible?
> 
> Yes.
> 
>>It is unnecessary.
> 
> Why?

tar /dev will cause complaints about open sockets and similar, its safe
to ignore them. 

The pure way is to use MAKEDEV

see "man MAKEDEV"

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