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Manual creation of OpenStack config drive

Intended for systems that expect OpenStack format config drive.
The essential pieces are disk label and file structure.
Here's how to generate one with user-data for cloud-init:

mkdir -p cloud-init/openstack/latest
$EDITOR cloud-init/openstack/latest/user_data
genisoimage -quiet -output config-disk.img -volid config-2 -joliet -rock cloud-init/

Copying the whole linux root filesystem locally or remotely using rsync

Explanation of chosen options:

Verbose output with speed and progress information
Try to preserve all possible information: file attrs, hardlinks, ACLs and extended attrs,
Exclude contents of pseudo-filesystems and mountpoints
In this example source host is remote and destination local.

rsync --info=progress2  -vaHAX --exclude={"/dev/*","/proc/*","/sys/*","/tmp/*","/run/*","/mnt/*","/media/*","/lost+found"} source.host:/ /local/destination


	# Just a personal note, but I'm making this public in case someone finds this useful.
	# These are unnecessary packages (for me) in initial installation of Linux Mint KDE 18.
	# Create a list by doing: echo $(grep -v ^# linux-mint-kde-packages-to-clean.txt)

	akonadi-server
	amarok*
	akonadi-backend-mysql
	libakonadi*
	avahi-*