On 15 Jun 2005, you wrote in lfs.support: > > On Wed, Jun 15, 2005 at 08:36:32AM +0100, Andrew Benton wrote: > >> I find tar to be quite effective >> >> cd /mnt >> tar cjf lfs.tar.bz2 lfs > > Rsync is cool if you have installed it. Mount the empty partition on > /mnt/lfs-new and run: > > rsync -a /mnt/lfs/ /mnt/lfs-new > > (NB: the trailing slash on /mnt/lfs/ is important, don't leave it > out!) > > Cheers, > > Jeremy Henty > >
Just as a note for the unwary - make sure you don't have proc, sysfs, dev et al mounted in /mnt/lfs when you create the tarball or copy the files to the new partition ;) - -- Steve Crosby -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
