On Mon, 1 Oct 2007, Daniel B. Thurman wrote:
I am preparing to backup my root drive in preparation for installing f7. What is the best way to do this? I have in /dev/hda as: /boot = /dev/hda1 / = /dev/hda2 I have backed up /boot with: tar zcvpf /boot.tgz /boot But have get to figure out how to get /dev/hda2 backed up without picking up the other drives mounted on /
No problem use the '--one-file-system' or '-l' parameter for tar:
tar zcvplf {somewhere}/root.tgz /
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