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# mkstage4
This is a Bash script to create stage 4 tarballs either for the running system, or a system at a specified mount point.
The script is a new edition of an earlier [mkstage4 script](https://github.com/gregf/bin/blob/master/mkstage4) by Greg Fitzgerald (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).
More information on mkstage4 can be found on its own Chymeric Tutorials article: [mkstage4 - Stage 4 Tarballs Made Easy](http://tutorials.chymera.eu/blog/2014/05/18/mkstage4-stage4-tarballs-made-easy/).
The script was inspired by an earlier [mkstage4 script](https://github.com/gregf/bin/blob/master/mkstage4) by Greg Fitzgerald (unmaintained as of 2012) which itself was a revamped edition of the [original mkstage4](http://blinkeye.ch/dokuwiki/doku.php/projects/mkstage4) by Reto Glauser (unmaintaied as of 2009).
Chinese Introduction [中文说明](http://liuk.io/blog/gentoo-stage4)
More information on mkstage4 can be found on the following blogs, though instructions may be outdated compared to the current version, best documented by this `README` file:
* English: [mkstage4 - Stage 4 Tarballs Made Easy](http://tutorials.chymera.eu/blog/2014/05/18/mkstage4-stage4-tarballs-made-easy/).
* Chinese: [中文说明](http://liuk.io/blog/gentoo-stage4)
## Installation
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mkstage4 -s archive_name
```
Archive system located at a custom mount point:
Archive a system located at a custom mount point:
```bash
mkstage4 -t /custom/mount/point archive_name
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tar xvjpf archive_name.tar.bz2
```
If you use -k option, extract src & modules separately
If you use the `-k` option, extract `src` and the modules separately
```bash
tar xvjpf archive_name.tar.bz2.kmod
tar xvjpf archive_name.tar.bz2.ksrc
```
If you have install pbzip2, you can extract parallelly with:
If you have pbzip2 installed, you can extract using parallelization, with:
```bash
tar -I pbzip2 -xvf archive_name.tar.bz2
```