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Re: Duplicating a partition's directory structure - How?

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On Tue, 3 Jan 2017 14:22:51 +0100 hdv@gmail sent:

> On 2017-01-03 12:13, Richard Owlett wrote:
> > I wish to duplicate a partition's directory structure without any
> > of the existing file contents. The immediate application is a
> > heavily customized version of an installation DVD. There are two
> > underlying goals. I wish to reuse some existing utilities which
> > expect to find data in a particular branch of the directory tree.
> > The second is very similar in that a person familiar with a
> > structure would assume that certain types of information will be in
> > a particular sub-directory.
> > 
> > Also this will be an educational experience as I expect the answer
> > will be elegant in its simplicity and point me towards chasms in my
> > understanding of Linux.
> > 
> > Thank you.  
> 
> Oops! I just noticed a solution was already given and accepted. Sorry
> for the noise.
> 
> Grx HdV


	After contemplation, my reply is:

No noise, but helpfulness.

Thank you,
Charlie

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Duplicating a partition's directory structure - How? Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> - 2017-01-03 12:20 +0100
  Re: Duplicating a partition's directory structure - How? Sven Joachim <svenjoac@gmx.de> - 2017-01-03 12:30 +0100
    Re: Duplicating a partition's directory structure - How? Dan Ritter <dsr@randomstring.org> - 2017-01-03 13:00 +0100
    THANK YOU! - was [Re: Duplicating a partition's directory structure -  How?] Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> - 2017-01-03 14:10 +0100
  Re: Duplicating a partition's directory structure - How? hdv@gmail <hdv.jadev@gmail.com> - 2017-01-03 14:30 +0100
    Re: Duplicating a partition's directory structure - How? Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> - 2017-01-03 14:40 +0100
    Re: Duplicating a partition's directory structure - How? Charlie <ariestao1@ipstarmail.com.au> - 2017-01-03 23:50 +0100
  Re: Duplicating a partition's directory structure - How? hdv@gmail <hdv.jadev@gmail.com> - 2017-01-03 14:30 +0100
  Re: Duplicating a partition's directory structure - How? Jörg-Volker Peetz <jvpeetz@web.de> - 2017-01-03 19:30 +0100

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