On 10/23/21 15:18, Peter Grandi wrote:
The device ID of my partition containing my home directory
changes (sometimes) when I reboot
This is an intrinsic behaviour of the Linux kernel, and it is
futile to fight it
Changing device ID's causes havoc with tar incremental backups
- tar consider all files are new.
For that reason there is a specific option in recent versions of
GNU 'tar':
"--no-check-device
Do not check device numbers when creating incremental archives."
Excellent, was not aware of that option. Thank you!
