This is very frustrating. I have 3 Linux books that I have consulted as well as the man page and I can't figure out how to use tar to back up my /home directory from where it resides on /dev/hdd to my other hard drive /dev/hdb7.
I accidentaly ran fsck today without making the file system read only which I later read was a no no and I am wondering if this may have lead to a problem. I never received any message that any of the files were damaged though. Anyway I change to my home directory, "cd /home". Then type "tar -cf /mnt/abner" (I previously mounted /dev/hdb7 to /mnt) Then I get the error message,"tar: Cowardly refusing to create and empty archive". I fooled around for a couple of hours with different sources and destinations for tar file but always got the same error message. Aaarghhhhh!!!!!!!!!! By the way I am logged on as root if this helps. I desperately await your replies. Thanks. __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! - Official partner of 2002 FIFA World Cup http://fifaworldcup.yahoo.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]