Odd tar behavior. Did stage4 finish? [solved]

Ric95 · Last edited by Ric95 on Sun Mar 21, 2010 4:56 am; edited 1 time in total

I made a stage4.tar.bz2 with :

Mike Hunt · Watchman Joined: 19 Jul 2009 Posts: 5287

it looks like your /media/sda4 ran out of room. 1.5G may not be anywhere near big enough.
Look at the output of df -h to get a ballpark idea of the space your installation uses.

d2_racing · Posted: Sat Mar 20, 2010 1:07 pm Post subject:

Maybe you need to exlude this too : stage4.tar.bz2
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Ric95 · Posted: Sat Mar 20, 2010 3:08 pm Post subject:

Ric95 · Posted: Sun Mar 21, 2010 4:55 am Post subject:

It was my bad.
I was trying to include everything possible. ( I previously excluded /dev , and regretted doing so.)
/proc must be excluded. It doesn't contain files, just virtual files, created as needed.
Adding /proc/* to the exclusion file allowed me to finish.

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d2_racing · Posted: Sun Mar 21, 2010 1:59 pm Post subject:

Nice then.
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RedSquirrel · Guru Joined: 22 Apr 2008 Posts: 336

For future backups, you might want to have a look at blinkeye's script. I find it works very well.

With regard to /dev, on most systems you only need /dev/null and /dev/console. (They are included in the stage4 tarball if you use blinkeye's script.)

Here is another link for your perusal:

http://en.gentoo-wiki.com/wiki/Custom_Stage4

A link to blinkeye's script is included in the Credits section there.

Ric95 · Posted: Mon Mar 22, 2010 4:07 am Post subject:

Making a stage4 is pretty basic, ( says me, who just messed it up

) but Blinkeyes script looks really good. I may use it in the future.
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d2_racing · Last modified : 2009-04-13 13:05 by blinkeye

Blinkeye script is a Stage 4.