Daniel Troeder wrote: > On Thu, 2009-04-30 at 14:44 -0500, Dale wrote: > >> I try to keep a "up to date" stage 4 tarball here in my system just in >> case. I basically did the creation just like I would if I were booted >> from the CD. I created /mnt/gentoo/ on my system, extracted a stage 3 >> there, then chroot in and create a stage 4 tarball. I have one weird >> thing tho that has me confused. When it creates the stage 4 tarball, it >> is in /mnt/gentoo. Today I unpacked the stage 4 so that I could update >> it and when I do a tar xjpf stage4 -C /mnt/gentoo, it actually looks >> like this, /mnt/gentoo/mnt/gentoo/ which is not what I am looking for. >> It doesn't matter on a running system, but it would if I were trying to >> rescue myself. >> >> How do I tell tar when I am making the tarball to look at /mnt/gentoo/ >> as it start point, root directory if you will? I read the man page but >> suspect I am missing it somewhere. There has to be a way since it is >> done that way for the stage 3 tarball. >> > I do just > # cd /mnt/gentoo > # tar cjpf /somewhere/gentoo4.tar.bz2 . > ^ dot @ the end! > > Which produces a tarball containg everything under "." - which is the > CWD -> ./bin ./boot ...and so on. > > Bye, > Daniel > >
I have to confess, I am always in the root directory, as in /. That makes sense too. I'll try to remember to try that next time. Thanks Dale :-) :-)
