[clamav-users] How to scan a single partition

Christian abelschreck3 at freenet.de
Mon Apr 26 13:14:54 UTC 2021


Hi altogether,

My system is Linux/Lubuntu 20.04.2 LTS, 64 bit.

I have *three* partitions: root-, home- and a third (data-)partition 
with 23 GB, 36 GB and 193 GB respectively plus 3 usb-sticks:

df -h
Dateisystem    Größe Benutzt Verf. Verw% Eingehängt auf
udev            1,9G       0  1,9G    0% /dev
tmpfs           386M    1,8M  384M    1% /run
/dev/sdc1        23G     13G  9,4G   58% /                            # 
root partition
tmpfs           1,9G       0  1,9G    0% /dev/shm
tmpfs           5,0M    8,0K  5,0M    1% /run/lock
tmpfs           1,9G       0  1,9G    0% /sys/fs/cgroup
/dev/sdc2        36G     22G   12G   64% /home                       # 
home partition
tmpfs           386M     12K  386M    1% /run/user/1000
/dev/sdf1       7,5G    2,1G  5,4G   29% /media/rosika/A492-CD29         
# usb-stick 1
/dev/sdd1        30G     26G  4,1G   87% /media/rosika/28BC-DAFC        
# usb-stick 2
/dev/sdc3       193G     99G   84G   55% 
/media/rosika/f14a27c2-0b49-4607-94ea-2e56bbf76fe1      # 3rd partition 
(data-partition)
/dev/sdb         30G     26G  3,9G   87% /media/rosika/74C1-30C7         
   # usb-stick 3


What I want to do is: scan the _root-partition exclusively_, not the 
other ones and not the sticks.

What command would I need for this?

Looking around on the web I found this command 
(https://pikedom.com/clam-anti-virus-on-arch-linux/ ):

/clamscan --recursive --infected 
--exclude-dir='^/sys|^/dev|^/proc|^/var/lib/clamav' --max-filesize=4000M 
--max-scansize=4000M / -l ~/clamav-scan-results/201803261436/

As the starting point is / this would scan everything, right? Which is 
not what I want to achieve.

Thanks for your help in advance.

Many greetings.
Rosika
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