Re: [gentoo-user] creating an image of the system

[Neil Bothwick]

On Mon, 09 Sep 2013 08:30:24 +0200, Michael Hampicke wrote:

> Tar with permission preservation is fine. Just exlude everything in
> dev/sys/proc/tmp as you said. But make sure, that these directories are
> in your tar file, it does not matter if they are empty, but they have to
> exist in order to boot proplery.
>
> One special case. To boot you most likely will need /dev/console and
> /dev/null. Just inlcude those two device nodes in your tar file.

Instead of all that, you could bind-mount / somewhere and just make a
tarball of that. That way you exclude any other filesystems (which can
also be done with --one-filesystem) and include any device nodes in the
underlying /dev directory.


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