In this case, /dev is just a subdirectory of /

[root@tsmtest1 ~]# df
Filesystem           1K-blocks      Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/mapper/VolGroup00-LogVol00
                      74053032   5427680  64802968   8% /
/dev/sda1               101086     16765     79102  18% /boot
tmpfs                   777736         0    777736   0% /dev/shm


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Shawn
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On 4 mei 2009, at 16:15, Shawn Drew wrote:

> It seems that /dev is excluded on all of our Linux clients (but not
> Solaris or AIX)

df will probably show you something like:

Filesystem           1K-blocks      Used Available Use% Mounted on
udev                     10240        84     10156   1% /dev

As you can see, /dev is not even a normal filesystem (unlike Solaris
and AIX), so making backups is of little use. It is generated on the
fly by the kernel. It is important to backup /etc/udev/

>
> The directory doesn't even show in the GUI when attempting a backup.
> (Normally if it is excluded, it is listed, but with an "X").
> However a
> command line backup of /dev does work.    The q inclexcl doesn't show
> anything excluded.
> On Windows, a "q inclexcl" shows the OS excluded files, but nothing on
> linux.  Does anyone know a list of what is excluded and how?
>
> Client: 5.5.1 on Linux
>
> a "dsmc q inclexcl" shows:
>
> *** FILE INCLUDE/EXCLUDE ***
> Mode Function  Pattern (match from top down)  Source File
> ---- --------- ------------------------------ -----------------
> No exclude filespace statements defined.
> Excl Directory /.../.TsmCacheDir              TSM
> No include/exclude statements defined.
> No DFS include/exclude statements defined.
>
>
> PS The $LANG is set to en_US, so it's not a character limitation thing
>
>
>
>
> Regards,
> Shawn
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