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Neil Bothwick wrote: |
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> On Tue, 16 Dec 2008 17:49:11 -0600, Dale wrote: |
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>>>> I made a note of that command and will give that a try. I'll also |
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>>>> read the man page to see how to get it to skip /dev /sys /proc etc |
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>>> That's what the -x is for. |
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>> Thanks for the info. As you may can tell, I have never used rsync |
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>> before. :/ |
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> Your portage tree must be very outdated by now :P |
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>> Then again, since I will be booted from the CD, shouldn't |
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>> they be empty anyway? Except maybe for /dev/null and /dev/console I |
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>> guess? |
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> Yes, and that is a better way of doing it as you will copy the two files |
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> in the underlying /dev. -x tells rsync to not cross filesystem |
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> boundaries, so it will make no difference if you are working from a live |
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> CD. |
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Well, I have used eix-sync but not rsync directly as a command. I sync |
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once a week, give or take. |
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Light bulb warning. So null and console are on the drive for it to |
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start up but once it mounts /dev then it uses that "virtual" thing? |
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Cool, if I understand that correctly. |
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I like it when my light bulb comes on. It's so . . . . . pretty. LOL |
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Dale |
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:-) :-) |
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P. S. My friend got called in to work. May be done tonight after all. |
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:-( |
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