On Sunday 09 January 2011 21:11:02 Alex Schuster wrote: > 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.
Thanks Wonko, it seems that I fell victim to my regex ignorance. I started with /tmp, but that would also exclude the directories and I didn't fancy creating them manually afterwards. Also dir/* does not include dir/.* What shall I use for excluding all the contents of a directory, but not the directory itself? I'll need to experiment some more. -- Regards, Mick
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