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. -- Neil Bothwick It may be that your sole purpose in life is simply to serve as a warning to others.
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