On Sun, 29 Feb 2004, s. keeling wrote: > Check the manpage. The "f" switch is used to tell tar that the next > parameter is the file to use: > > tar cvzf test.tar.gz / > > Instead, cd to someplace with some space, then run it.
Yes, that is right ... my fault. > By default, tar doesn't, so you must have done something wrong. Try: > > cd / > tar cvzf /somewhere/test.tgz . > cd /somewhere > tar tvzf test.tgz > > Note the "." btw, tarring the whole root dir will tar the entire > filesystem, including everything that's mounted off the root > filesystem. man tar to find out how not to do that. Yes surely, I did a lot of --exclude=/mnt --exclude=/dev ... that was not the problem. What I do not understand is: I am in directory /home/me/TAR_EXAMPLE Now I want to tar directory /tmp for example then I do tar cvzf temp.test.tar.gz /tmp Afterwards I receive in the directory /home/me/TAR_EXAMPLE the archive temp.test.tar.gz which can be untared without any problems. But ... trying to do tar cvzf root.test.tar.gz / --exclude=home --exclude=/dev I receive the archive root.test.tar.gz in directory /home/me/TAR_EXAMPLE but trying to untar it gives me the mkdir-error-message. Why is tar not processing the / directory like any other directory and why is it adding a / when tar xvzf cannot untar it? So the conclusion would be that trying to tar the / directory I have to cd into that directory to make it working while with any other directory I can start the tar-process from where ever I want? Oliver -- ... don't touch the bang bang fruit -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
