user1@vm1:~$ tar -czvf root.tgz /opt/root/
tar: Removing leading '/' from member names
/opt/root/
/opt/root/bin/
/opt/root/bin/bash
/opt/root/lib64/
/opt/root/lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2
/opt/root/lib/
/opt/root/lib/libdl.so.2
/opt/root/lib/libncurses.so.5
/opt/root/lib/libc.so.6
user1@vm1:~$ tar -tzvf root.tgz
drwxr-xr-x root/root 0 2012-07-05 03:14 opt/root/
drwxr-xr-x root/root 0 2012-07-05 03:14 opt/root/bin/
-rwxr-xr-x root/root 926536 2012-07-05 03:14 opt/root/bin/bash
drwxr-xr-x root/root 0 2012-07-05 03:14 opt/root/lib64/
-rwxr-xr-x root/root 128744 2012-07-05 03:14 opt/root/lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2
drwxr-xr-x root/root 0 2012-07-05 03:14 opt/root/lib/
-rw-r--r-- root/root 14696 2012-07-05 03:14 opt/root/lib/libdl.so.2
-rw-r--r-- root/root 286776 2012-07-05 03:14 opt/root/lib/libncurses.so.5
-rwxr-xr-x root/root 1437064 2012-07-05 03:14 opt/root/lib/libc.so.6
user1@vm1:~$ cd /tmp
user1@vm1:/tmp$ tar -zxvf ~/root.tgz
opt/root/
opt/root/bin/
opt/root/bin/bash
opt/root/lib64/
opt/root/lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2
opt/root/lib/
opt/root/lib/libdl.so.2
opt/root/lib/libncurses.so.5
opt/root/lib/libc.so.6
user1@vm1:/tmp$ ls -al
total 19
drwxrwxrwt 6 root root 1024 Jul 5 04:17 .
drwxr-xr-x 22 root root 1024 Jul 3 08:29 ..
drwxrwxrwt 2 root root 1024 Jul 3 08:41 .ICE-unix
drwx------ 2 root root 12288 Jul 3 07:47 lost+found
drwxr-xr-x 3 user1 user1 1024 Jul 5 03:24 opt
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 489 Jul 3 10:14 sources.list
-r--r----- 1 root root 491 Jul 3 10:21 sudoers
drwxrwxrwt 2 root root 1024 Jul 3 08:41 .X11-unix
user1@vm1:/tmp$ dd_if=$(mount | grep /tmp | cut -d ' ' -f 1) && echo $dd_if
/dev/sda8
user1@vm1:~$ cd && ls -alh
total 243M
drwxr-xr-x 3 user1 user1 4.0K Jul 5 04:27 .
drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 4.0K Jul 3 08:39 ..
-rw------- 1 user1 user1 22 Jul 3 10:45 .bash_history
-rw-r--r-- 1 user1 user1 220 Jul 3 08:39 .bash_logout
-rw-r--r-- 1 user1 user1 3.2K Jul 3 08:39 .bashrc
-rw------- 1 user1 user1 52 Jul 5 04:12 .lesshst
drwxr-xr-x 3 user1 user1 4.0K Jul 5 03:23 opt
-rw-r--r-- 1 user1 user1 675 Jul 3 08:39 .profile
-rw-r--r-- 1 user1 user1 1.3M Jul 5 04:25 root.tgz
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 241M Jul 5 04:36 tmp.img
user1@vm1:~$ sudo losetup /dev/loop1 ~/tmp.img && sudo mount /dev/loop1 /mnt/
user1@vm1:~$ ls -al /mnt
total 19
drwxrwxrwt 6 root root 1024 Jul 5 04:17 .
drwxr-xr-x 22 root root 1024 Jul 3 08:29 ..
drwxrwxrwt 2 root root 1024 Jul 3 08:41 .ICE-unix
drwx------ 2 root root 12288 Jul 3 07:47 lost+found
drwxr-xr-x 3 user1 user1 1024 Jul 5 03:24 opt
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 489 Jul 3 10:14 sources.list
-r--r----- 1 root root 491 Jul 3 10:21 sudoers
drwxrwxrwt 2 root root 1024 Jul 3 08:41 .X11-unix
user1@vm1:~$ sudo umount /mnt && sudo losetup -d /dev/loop1
user1@vm1:~$ sudo umount $dd_if && sudo mkfs.ext3 $dd_if
mke2fs 1.41.12 (17-May-2010)
Filesystem label=
OS type: Linux
Block size=1024 (log=0)
Fragment size=1024 (log=0)
Stride=0 blocks, Stripe width=0 blocks
61752 inodes, 246784 blocks
12339 blocks (5.00%) reserved for the super user
First data block=1
Maximum filesystem blocks=67371008
31 block groups
8192 blocks per group, 8192 fragments per group
1992 inodes per group
Superblock backups stored on blocks:
8193, 24577, 40961, 57345, 73729, 204801, 221185
Writing inode tables: done
Creating journal (4096 blocks): done
Writing superblocks and filesystem accounting information: done
This filesystem will be automatically checked every 27 mounts or
180 days, whichever comes first. Use tune2fs -c or -i to override.
user1@vm1:~$ new_uuid=$(sudo tune2fs -l $dd_if | awk '/UUID/{print $3}') && echo $new_uuid
f8288adc-3ef9-4a6e-aab2-92624276b8ba
user1@vm1:~$ grep '/tmp' /etc/fstab
# /tmp was on /dev/sda8 during installation
UUID=011b4530-e4a9-4d13-926b-48d9e33b64bf /tmp ext3 defaults 0 2
user1@vm1:~$ sed "s/^UUID=.*\/tmp\s\+ext3\s\+defaults\s\+[0-9]\s\+[0-9]\s\?/UUID=$new_uuid \/tmp ext3 defaults 0 2/" /etc/fstab
# /etc/fstab: static file system information.
#
# Use 'blkid' to print the universally unique identifier for a
# device; this may be used with UUID= as a more robust way to name devices
# that works even if disks are added and removed. See fstab(5).
#
# <file system> <mount point> <type> <options> <dump> <pass>
proc /proc proc defaults 0 0
# / was on /dev/sda1 during installation
UUID=91aacf33-0b35-474c-9c61-311e04b0bed1 / ext3 errors=remount-ro 0 1
# /home was on /dev/sda9 during installation
UUID=e27b0efb-8cf0-439c-9ebe-d59c927dd590 /home ext3 defaults 0 2
# /tmp was on /dev/sda8 during installation
UUID=f8288adc-3ef9-4a6e-aab2-92624276b8ba /tmp ext3 defaults 0 2
# /usr was on /dev/sda5 during installation
UUID=9f49821b-7f94-4915-b9a9-ed9f12bb6847 /usr ext3 defaults 0 2
# /var was on /dev/sda6 during installation
UUID=b7e908a1-a1cd-4d5c-bc79-c3a99d003e7c /var ext3 defaults 0 2
# swap was on /dev/sda7 during installation
UUID=292981d7-5a17-488f-8d9a-176b65f45d46 none swap sw 0 0
/dev/scd0 /media/cdrom0 udf,iso9660 user,noauto 0 0
sudo sed -i'.bak' "s/^UUID=.*\/tmp\s\+ext3\s\+defaults\s\+[0-9]\s\+[0-9]\s\?/UUID=$new_uuid \/tmp ext3 defaults 0 2/" /etc/fstab
sudo mount -a && ls /tmp
user1@vm1:~$ sudo umount /tmp && pv ~/tmp.img | sudo dd of=$dd_if bs=10M
241MB 0:00:04 [54.2MB/s] [===============================================================================================================>] 100%
0+1928 records in
0+1928 records out
252706816 bytes (253 MB) copied, 5.52494 s, 45.7 MB/s
user1@vm1:~$ rm -v tmp.img
rm: remove write-protected regular file `tmp.img'? y
removed `tmp.img'
user1@vm1:~$