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#mkstage4
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Nash script to create stage 4 tarballs either for the running system, or a system at a specified mount point.
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The script is a new edition of the [mkstage4 script by Greg Fitzgerald](https://github.com/gregf/bin/blob/master/mkstage4) (unmaintained as of 2012) which is itself a revamped edition of the [original mkstage4](http://blinkeye.ch/dokuwiki/doku.php/projects/mkstage4) by Reto Glauser (unmaintaied as of 2009).
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More information on this script can be found on the respective [Chymeric Tutorials article](http://tutorials.chymera.eu/blog/2014/05/18/mkstage4-stage4-tarballs-made-easy/).
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##Usage
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Running mksatge4 from its own directory:
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```bash
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cd /your/mkstage4/directory
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chmod +x mkstage4.sh
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```
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Archive your current system (mounted at /):
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```bash
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./mkstage4.sh -s archive_name
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```
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Archive system located at a custom mount point:
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```bash
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./mkstage4.sh -t /custom/mount/point archive_name
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```
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Other options:
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* ```-q``` (quiet) prompts of confirmation.
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* ```-b``` (no-boot) excludes the ```/boot``` (or ```/cutom/mount/point/boot```).
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* ```-c``` (no-connman) excludes connman saved networks directory.
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##Extract Tarball
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Tarballs created with mkstage4 can be extracted with:
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```bash
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tar xvjpf archive_name.tar.bz2
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```
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##Dependencies:
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* **[Bash](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bash_(Unix_shell))** - in [Portage](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portage_(software)) as **app-shells/bash**
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* **[tar](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tar_(computing))** - in Portage as **app-arch/tar**
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Please note that these are very basic dependencies and should be already included in any Linux system.
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##Meta
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Released under the GPLv3 license.
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Project led by Horea Christian (address all correspondence to: h.chr@mail.ru).
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