Subject: Re: How to set UF_NODUMP on a directory?
To: Alastair Rankine <a_rankine@yahoo.co.uk>
From: Soren Jacobsen <soren@blef.org>
List: netbsd-help
Date: 06/01/2003 09:23:05
On 06/01 10:01, Alastair Rankine wrote:
> Hi, possibly very dumb question here, but how do you set the UF_NODUMP
> flag for a directory to exclude it from being backed up with dump (as
> per the dump manpage)?
> 
> Looks like it should be a chmod flag, but I can't see any reference to
> this in the chmod man page.

Down at the bottom of the dump man page in the SEE ALSO section, there
is a reference to chflags(1).

$ chflags nodump /dont/dump/me