> 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?
* doesn't match files starting with dot. the right way to tar a directory is to use . as the arg: tar cvzf /media/disk/psa-home.tgz . _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
