Re: ReiserFS + 2.4.4

[Matthew Dalton <matthewd@research.canon.com.au>]

William Leese wrote:
> 
> > > 3) rm -rf /usr, /lib.. etc after mounting the vfat partition which also
> > > contains a copy of /sbin and /bin untarred.
> >
> > Hmmm... aren't there important things in /lib, namely libc?
> 
> would that be needed for running mkreiserfs, tar and perhaps a few other gnu
> tools? because thats all that is needed really, just to make the reiser
> partition and use tar to untar the system backup.

On an old redhat system here (I don't have access to a Debian system
ATM), tar is dynamically linked:

$ which tar
/bin/tar
$ ldd /bin/tar
        /lib/libNoVersion.so.1 => /lib/libNoVersion.so.1 (0x40015000)
        libc.so.6 => /lib/libc.so.6 (0x4001f000)
        /lib/ld-linux.so.2 => /lib/ld-linux.so.2 (0x40000000)

Debian is probably similar, so most likely /lib and its contents will be
needed.