Dave Williams wrote: > I'm building the development version. Since I didn't want to lose my work > in > case I had to backtrack (slight RTFM problem, you know) I backed up my build > environment at chapters 5.34 and 6.61. I ran into boot problems when > finished, so I backed up again at that point, deleted the working file set, > and tried to unzip the 6.61 saved set to step back through and see what I did > wrong. > > Yes, I failed verify the backup sets, and I deleted the existing fileset. > Yes, even though there was plenty of room on the disk. And, of course, the > backups are unrecoverable. > > The problem is that I used the "zip" program since I didn't want to look up > the switches to use one of the native Unix utilities. (tar -xvf is almost a > reflex action, but I almost never have to *create* a compressed file)
man tar: tar -jcf tarballname.tar.bz2 directory-to-be-archived -- Bruce -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
