On Fri, May 05, 2023 at 12:07:09AM -0700, David Christensen wrote:
How does cpio(1) compare?
How about dump(8) and restore(8)?
I'd note that these (like tar) are both very old tools, and there are
many more modern ones perhaps worthy of consideration too. (which; is
left as an exercise for the
On 5/4/23 23:46, Jeremy Ardley wrote:
On 5/5/23 14:21, David Christensen wrote:
If the file is a some kind of archive (e.g. tar(1)), both the data
and metadata are inside the tarball and the full-circle results
should be identical.
Not quite. The file times are usually changed in the un-tar
op
Maurits van Rees <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
From the apt-get manual page:
clean
autoclean
So call 'apt-get autoclean' to remove most of your packages or
'apt-get clean' to remove them all. It doesn't hurt. You just need to
fetch those files again when you ha
On Fri, Jun 03, 2005 at 10:18:42PM +0200, Maurits van Rees wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 03, 2005 at 03:44:46PM -0400, Thomas H. George wrote:
> > I note that there are multiple entries for most of the packages in the
> > archive with dates going back two or three years. Perhaps it would have
> > been be
On Fri, 03 Jun 2005 15:44:46 -0400
"Thomas H. George" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Suddenly I have used up all 9 Gbytes of the /var partition. I
> eliminated some of the gzipped log files but that didn't help much.
> For the moment I moved all of the /var/cache
On Fri, Jun 03, 2005 at 03:44:46PM -0400, Thomas H. George wrote:
> I note that there are multiple entries for most of the packages in the
> archive with dates going back two or three years. Perhaps it would have
> been better to weed out the older entries. If so, is there a simple way
> to do
Suddenly I have used up all 9 Gbytes of the /var partition. I
eliminated some of the gzipped log files but that didn't help much. For
the moment I moved all of the /var/cache/apt/archive files - about 3
Gbytes - to another partition. The system is still working but I don't
kno
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