-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Sunday 23 Jan 2005 17:25, Tom Brinkman wrote: I've never tried it, but logically.... > > I have no experience (no Win$ux), but that pretty much mirrors > my understanding. Just one item left, if you make a tarball, say > a backup of your /home directory... can you extract the contents > of the tarball on a ntfs partition directly into a Linux (ext_, > ReiserFS, XFS, JFS, etc) partition? Similarly, can rpm's stored > on ntfs, be installed from there? > If you have a tar file (and I think tar.gz) and need to grab a file from it in windows, winzip can do it. OTOH, if you want to extract the whole thing back into your linux partition, I can't see why not. After all, no writing on the ntfs partition would be involved. It should be possible to go in from Knoppix or Move or whatever to do it, but I don't see how you could do it from the windows OS, since windows does not see ntfs partitions. There are tools to allow it to, but they are a bit dodgy and I'd have to be desperate to do it. (BTW - I think it was a write to ntfs that blew W2K on my box :-) )
Does that cover what you were thinking of? > I would think dual-boot newbies with no separate /home > partition, might find this a lifesaving alternative to save > their /home files and configs. Much the same with /boot, /etc, > or /var. Directories I regularly backup (un-tar'd) to a > ReiserFS /stor partition. Some rpm's I save too, just in case I > need to --force them in again to replace (corrupted or deleted) > files. Specially helpful for kernels. Anne - -- Registered Linux User No.293302 (http://counter.li.org/) Have you visited http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org yet? Mandrake at all levels -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFB8+CdkFAvMr/nNX8RAp+iAKCB/RT+u6kBKV0Onod1iD9k6UpoOACdH1g8 ZHnVbZvGC84vSqixZA83YMY= =eW4C -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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