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I've been having some trouble and managed to delete the entire /usr/share/mime directory. OK! reinstalled system, but thought backing up the root directory might be a good idea. From what I'm reading here

/proc kcore file is huge

and

A few /proc and /dev questions

I'm guessing that /dev & /proc will look after themselves - they only exist when the computer is "alive" (so it's not necessary to back them up)

Is this correct?

"Yes" or "No" is fine (I'm assuming "Yes")

but Thanks!

dmk

dmk
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proc - Yes, dev - generally Yes - use can check by

mount |grep " /dev "
rastik
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  • @rastic Thanks for that. I'm getting
    Bash - 4.2.37 : mount | grep " /dev "
    udev on /dev type devtmpfs (rw,relatime,size=10240k,nr_inodes=126206,mode=755) I'm assuming that's OK. Actually, all I'm after, is a fully **rsynced** copy of root so I can repair any damn fool mistakes I make like the last one! Thanks again - dmk     – dmk Aug 20 '15 at 07:49
  • In your case "Yes" applies to dev too. – rastik Aug 20 '15 at 20:04