Michael Walters wrote: >Thanks Nick and everyone else, > >I did a du -h /home/michael and found I am using 181M in /home/michael > >I did a du -h /tmp and got 17K used in /tmp. > >Since my usage in /home/michael was only 181M I should be able to put >all of my home directory on a 700M CD as 181M is far less than 700M. > >I was told that I could tar the current directory by doing tar . by a >fellow I met at the Calgary Community Network Association. I am going to >try that out now and will tell you how it goes. > > I tried tar . and got an error message of tar . invalid operation try tar --help. I tried tar --help and a number of lines went by, only the last of which I could read. I have forgotten how to scroll through a help file.
Regards, Michael again >Regards, > >Michael Walters > >_______________________________________________ > > _______________________________________________ clug-talk mailing list [email protected] http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) **Please remove these lines when replying
