Mick writes:
> I used:
>
> tar -X file.list -lcvSf - . | (cd /new_gentoo_partition; tar -xpvf - )
>
> to clone a gentoo / partition to another partition on the same disk (I
> want to run some tests from it).
>
> The file.list has this is in it:
>
> tmp/*
> proc/*
> sys/*
> dev/*
> etc/mtab
> usr/portage/distfiles/*
Which also excludes /usr/include/sys, not only /sys. And so on. You
probably have to rewrite this as ./tmp/* , but I did not test this.
And I just learnt that -l is no longer a synonym for --one-file-system,
at least for tar 1.25. I'd do it with a bind mount this:
mount -o bind / /mnt
cd /mnt
tar -cvSf - . | (cd /new_gentoo_partition; tar -xpvf - )
This way, the original /dev is being copied (including entries console
and null), without the udev stuff that is mounted on top of /dev, while
with --one-file-system only the empty /dev directory would be created.
Wonko
