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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 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.
##Installation
####On Gentoo Linux and Derivatives:
Mkstage4 is available in the Portage chymerc overlay as app-backup/mkstage4. Just run the following command:
emerge app-backup/mkstage4
If you are not yet using this overlay, it can be enabled with just two commands, as seen in the README.
####On all other Operating Systems:
For all other Linux distributions or operating systems, the script can also be run directly from the containing folder:
git clone https://github.com/TheChymera/mkstage4.git /your/mkstage4/directory
cd /your/mkstage4/directory
chmod +x mkstage4.sh
Please bear in mind that this will not pull in RawTherapee, make sure you have already installed it.
##Usage
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:
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).