I want to tar (to a mounted flash drive) the complete contents (dot files, directories, and regular files) of my wife's ~/ on her laptop. When I use 'du -sh' on her ~/, I see that it consumes 1.5G of disk space. Yet when I tar the same directory the tarball size is only 137M. I'm obviously missing most of what's there.
The syntax I used is 'tar czvf /media/disk/psa-home.tgz *'. I don't see the dot files in the tarball, and I cannot immediately identify what's missing. What might I be doing incorrectly? Is there a better way to backup her home directory (and the /etc directory) to ensure every file is copied to the removable flash drive? TIA, Rich _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
