to ext4 or not...

[John Abreau]

On Tue, Jun 23, 2009 at 2:28 PM, David Rosenstrauch<darose-prQxUZoa2zOsTnJN9+BGXg at public.gmane.org> wrote:
> David Kramer wrote:
>> I'm really stuck now, though, because there's no way to get my root
>> partition back to ext3.  Since it's /, it's got /dev and /proc and other
>> things you can't just tar up.  So I've symlinked some critical things
>> like /var/mail to other filesystems.
>
> Reboot your system onto a LiveCD (e.g., SystemRescueCD).  This removes
> /dev, /proc, etc. from relevance, and then you can tar up the root FS.
>


Gnu tar has lots of extra goodies,. such as "--one-file-system", which
tells it not to cross over into other filesystems, such as /proc, /dev, etc.



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