ANIRUDH VIJ wrote: > hi, > i followed thre instruction in the lfs book 6.2 and my basic lfs system now > works well.I want to back it up so that after i mess around and spoil the > installation,i can still recover the system > i have enough space on other hard disk partitions to completely back up the > lfs partition . > is a > sudo cp -rv /media/lfs/* /home > good enough ,or is backing up more complicated.if i reformat my lfs partition, > and then copy all files from the folder in which i copied the earlier, will > the system state be restored?? > thanks. >
I find using (as root) cp -a $LFS/* $DESTDIR works. Or the probably better alternative would be to make a tarball of the whole thing. man tar is your friend there. You can also pass tar through gzip or bzip2 for compression. Alan -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
