You may be right. I just did 'tar cvf f00.tar /' and ended up with a 2.6GB tarball, which seemed about right. At this point the only damage appears to be the /tmp permissions weirdness, and the current 'missing' fonts. The laptop is at home, so i'll do some more digging tonight.
On Mon, 2 Jun 2003, Roger Oberholtzer wrote: > 'tarred' to copy a system? Yikes. I know GNU tar is better at this than > older tars, but I would have used cpio, which handles device and > special files (like pipes) better. Just personal (and probably > superstitious) behavior. > > On Mon, 2 Jun 2003 09:39:34 -0400 (EDT) > Net Llama! <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Turns out that the permissions on all of /tmp were somehow messed up. I > > don't know how this is possible, when I tarred up the entire / filesystem > > (which included eveything but /boot). So X is working now, although > > something is still screwy with fonts, cause i can't open an xterm. Seems > > that it can't find a font that it needs. ugh. > > > -- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Lonni J Friedman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Linux Step-by-step & TyGeMo http://netllama.ipfox.com _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc -> http://www.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
