Nikos Chantziaras wrote:
1) Better use -cjvpf ("f") takes an argument (the filename of that tar
to be crated) so it must be at the end.
That's why I usually use "tar -cjvp -f blabla.tar.bz2". I always
seperate options that take an argument from the rest. But -cjvpf works
too as long as "f" is at the end. This means that if you combine many
options after a single "-", only one one of them is allowed to take an
argument; the last one.
It might also be easier for you to use long options instead of short
ones (easier to read). This:
-cjvpf -C
Is equivalent to:
--create --bzip2 --verbose --preserve-permissions --file --directory
So the original example becomes:
tar --create --bzip2 --verbose --preserve-permissions --file
/data/Gentoo-stuff/stage4-x86-04-2009.tar.bz2 --directory /mnt/gentoo .
Which might be longer to write but perhaps easier to understand :P
