[gentoo-user] Re: gentoo install on Dell restore partition... live?

[Nikos Chantziaras <realnc@arcor.de>]

Neil Bothwick wrote:
> On Tue, 15 Jul 2008 09:43:33 +0300, Nikos Chantziaras wrote:
> 
>> 'cp -a' your existing / to your target / (except /dev, /sys and /proc). 
>>    If you mounted your target / as /root/target, you do:
>>
>> cp -a /usr /root/hd
>> (repeat this for all directories in your current /
>> *EXCEPT* /dev, /proc, /sys and /lost+found)
>>
>> mkdir /root/hd/dev
>> mkdir /root/hd/proc
>> mkdir /root/hd/sys
> 
> Or replace all this with one command
> 
> cp -al / /root/hd

I assume you meant 'cp -ax' :P

That's indeed faster than typing everything by hand and I forgot about it ;P


> or, my preference
> 
> rsync -ax / /root/hd/

Well, /root/hd is empty so there's nothing to win with rsync other than 
it being slower than cp.  But it does the job too, anyway.

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