Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Thu, 30 Apr 2009 14:44:57 -0500, Dale wrote: > > >> How do I tell tar when I am making the tarball to look at /mnt/gentoo/ >> as it start point, root directory if you will? I read the man page but >> suspect I am missing it somewhere. There has to be a way since it is >> done that way for the stage 3 tarball. >> > > The same way you change directory when you extract, with -C. > > tar cf archive.tar -C /mnt/gentoo . > > >
Well, it don't like that here. I used your command and replaced with the correct parts of course: r...@smoker / # tar cf /data/Gentoo-stuff/stage4-x86-04-2009.tar -C /mnt/gentoo tar: Cowardly refusing to create an empty archive Try `tar --help' or `tar --usage' for more information. r...@smoker / # I'm missing something that is likely very obvious here. Dale :-) :-)
