Re: Inconsistent device numbers after reboot

On 10/23/21 15:18, Peter Grandi wrote:

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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

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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!