Re: [Xen-users] Devices not available in domain

[Rich Persaud <rich.p@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Gisbert Amm wrote:

> Argh, I now understand what I did wrong: I created a file with dd, 
> connected it with a loopback device using losetup, mounted it and 
> populated the filesystem copying the necessary parts of my existing 
> installation into it. However, I missed the preserve option when doing 
> cp! Therefore the permissions e.g. for /dev/null where wrong. I should 
> have done cp -p ...
cd /mnt/newrootfs
(cd /mnt/oldrootfs; tar cf - dir1 dir2 dir3 dir4) | tar xf -

Rich

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