#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 by Greg Fitzgerald (unmaintained as of 2012) which is itself a revamped edition of the original 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.

##Usage

Preparing to run mkstage4 from its own directory:

git clone https://github.com/TheChymera/mkstage4.git /your/mkstage4/directory
cd /your/mkstage4/directory
chmod +x mkstage4.sh

Archive your current system (mounted at /):

./mkstage4.sh -s archive_name

Archive system located at a custom mount point:

./mkstage4.sh -t /custom/mount/point archive_name

Other options:

• -q: (quiet) runs without prompting for confirmation (careful!).
• -b: (no-boot) excludes the /boot (or /cutom/mount/point/boot) directory.
• -c: (no-connman) excludes connman saved networks directory.

##Extract Tarball

Tarballs created with mkstage4 can be extracted with:

tar xvjpf archive_name.tar.bz2

##Dependencies:

• Bash - in Portage as app-shells/bash
• tar - in Portage as app-arch/tar

Please note that these are very basic dependencies and should already be included in any Linux system.

##Meta Released under the GPLv3 license. Project led by Horea Christian (address all correspondence to: h.chr@mail.ru).