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On Sunday 09 January 2011 21:11:02 Alex Schuster wrote: |
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> Mick writes: |
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> > I used: |
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> > tar -X file.list -lcvSf - . | (cd /new_gentoo_partition; tar -xpvf - ) |
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> > |
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> > to clone a gentoo / partition to another partition on the same disk (I |
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> > want to run some tests from it). |
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> > |
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> > The file.list has this is in it: |
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> > |
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> > tmp/* |
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> > proc/* |
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> > sys/* |
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> > dev/* |
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> > etc/mtab |
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> > usr/portage/distfiles/* |
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> |
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> Which also excludes /usr/include/sys, not only /sys. And so on. You |
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> probably have to rewrite this as ./tmp/* , but I did not test this. |
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> And I just learnt that -l is no longer a synonym for --one-file-system, |
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> at least for tar 1.25. I'd do it with a bind mount this: |
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> mount -o bind / /mnt |
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> cd /mnt |
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> tar -cvSf - . | (cd /new_gentoo_partition; tar -xpvf - ) |
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> This way, the original /dev is being copied (including entries console |
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> and null), without the udev stuff that is mounted on top of /dev, while |
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> with --one-file-system only the empty /dev directory would be created. |
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Thanks Wonko, it seems that I fell victim to my regex ignorance. I started |
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with /tmp, but that would also exclude the directories and I didn't fancy |
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creating them manually afterwards. Also dir/* does not include dir/.* |
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What shall I use for excluding all the contents of a directory, but not the |
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directory itself? |
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I'll need to experiment some more. |
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Regards, |
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Mick |
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