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> system. I was just going to do "tar -cjvpf backup.tgz2 /" from the |
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> rescue/install cd while chrooted in my system. |
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You probably mean .tbz2 here? Or you might prefer tar czpf and .tgz instead. |
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Will save you quite some time as gzip is faster (difference in compression |
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would be <10%) |
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> 1) Is that a safe and good thing to do? |
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It is, except you do not need (and want ) contents of /tmp, /proc and half of |
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/var. I tend to do this for just dirs I consider necessary (cd /; tar xzpf b* |
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etc home lib root sbin usr var). |
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If you will want to do this regularly, you might be interested in incremental |
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backup ability of tar or even consider something more specialized. |
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> 2) Can I delete the contents of /usr/portage/distfiles? There's about |
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> 350mb there that I don't really need. |
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yes. Or if you want to avoid downloading this stuff again just keep it |
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separately. |
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> 3) If I unmerge the kernel source, will that affect the running kernel? |
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> Will it mess up future package installs? |
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No and yes for some. You will need kernel-headers to compile some system libs |
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such as glibc. |
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George |
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