The command to tar & gzip is: tar -zcf /tmp/michael.tgz /home/michael (then burn the file /tmp/michael.tgz to CD)
without compression, remove the z option: tar -cf /tmp/michael.tar /home/michael add the v option to either command for verbose output, but note the f option must come LAST: tar -zvcf /tmp/michael.tgz /home/michael to scroll help: tar --help | less or man tar to decompress later: tar -zxvf michael.tgz /wherever/you/want or if you didn't use compression above: tar -xvf michael.tar /wherever/you/want Happy tar-ing :) On Monday 14 November 2005 11:43 pm, Michael Walters wrote: > Michael Walters wrote: > >Thanks Nick and everyone else, > > > >I did a du -h /home/michael and found I am using 181M in /home/michael > > > >I did a du -h /tmp and got 17K used in /tmp. > > > >Since my usage in /home/michael was only 181M I should be able to put > >all of my home directory on a 700M CD as 181M is far less than 700M. > > > >I was told that I could tar the current directory by doing tar . by a > >fellow I met at the Calgary Community Network Association. I am going to > >try that out now and will tell you how it goes. > > I tried tar . and got an error message of tar . invalid operation try > tar --help. I tried tar --help and a number of lines went by, only the > last of which I could read. I have forgotten how to scroll through a > help file. > > Regards, > > Michael again > > >Regards, > > > >Michael Walters > > > >_______________________________________________ > > _______________________________________________ > clug-talk mailing list > [email protected] > http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca > Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) > **Please remove these lines when replying _______________________________________________ clug-talk mailing list [email protected] http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) **Please remove these lines when replying
