From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([69.77.167.62] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1KIfBP-0004Td-Q3 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 15 Jul 2008 07:42:48 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 50576E033F; Tue, 15 Jul 2008 07:42:46 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 11C48E033F for ; Tue, 15 Jul 2008 07:42:46 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 94B3665A66 for ; Tue, 15 Jul 2008 07:42:45 +0000 (UTC) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at gentoo.org X-Spam-Score: -2.992 X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.992 required=5.5 tests=[AWL=-0.549, BAYES_00=-2.599, SUBJECT_FUZZY_TION=0.156] Received: from smtp.gentoo.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.gentoo.org [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id dXKVCz3GniAU for ; Tue, 15 Jul 2008 07:42:38 +0000 (UTC) Received: from ciao.gmane.org (main.gmane.org [80.91.229.2]) (using TLSv1 with cipher AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8112865C45 for ; Tue, 15 Jul 2008 07:42:37 +0000 (UTC) Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1KIfB8-0001bl-Ct for gentoo-user@gentoo.org; Tue, 15 Jul 2008 07:42:30 +0000 Received: from athedsl-308599.home.otenet.gr ([85.73.253.21]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 15 Jul 2008 07:42:30 +0000 Received: from realnc by athedsl-308599.home.otenet.gr with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 15 Jul 2008 07:42:30 +0000 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org From: Nikos Chantziaras Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: gentoo install on Dell restore partition... live? Date: Tue, 15 Jul 2008 10:42:20 +0300 Organization: Lucas Barks Message-ID: References: <20080714223103.5969a906@evolone.org> <20080715080936.7aee5ebc@loonquawl.digimed.co.uk> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: athedsl-308599.home.otenet.gr User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; x86_64; en-US; rv:1.8.1.14) Gecko/20080421 Thunderbird/2.0.0.14 Mnenhy/0.7.5.0 In-Reply-To: <20080715080936.7aee5ebc@loonquawl.digimed.co.uk> Sender: news X-Archives-Salt: c8fd92bd-6c53-4b5a-87f3-866e607a6799 X-Archives-Hash: 40563585fff80c32055eec080029daf6 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. -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list