Mick wrote:
On 08/04/06, Phil Sexton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
cd /mnt/source
tar cf - . | (cd /mnt/destination && tar xBfp -)
What does B do? I can't understand the manual! :-(
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Regards,
Mick
I'm not 100 percent sure that I understand it, but I use it
since the O'Reilly article suggested it.
From the man page:
-B, --read-full-blocks
reblock as we read (for reading 4.2BSD pipes)
I think that the --read-full-blocks means to read a full block
of the hard disk drive and if needed, re-block if reading from a
4.2BSD filesystem.
It may not even be needed if you don't have any BSD filesystems.
Does anyone know more about tar than I do? <};-}
Sure, they do!
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