In a message dated 2/7/2002 10:28:24 AM Mountain Standard Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:


> 2. There's a thread that talks about this, with various ways of doing it at
> http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvtype?LINUX-VM.19584.  One thing that might
> be
> missing from it is Alan Cox's suggestion on adding a "S" parameter to the
> tar command to correctly handle any sparse files that might be in the file
> system.
>

Ok..thanks...but in this case, this is a newly built system
and there is nothing in /home except for the root's hidden files....
Does that make it a simpler process ??

Thanks,
Dave

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