Re: directories->files

2000-05-25 Thread Paul Clark
On Thu, 25 May 2000, Colin Watson wrote: > You had hard links to directories? Links by dragging from kfm or ln -s. > All the files should still be in the .tar.gz (check what 'tar tzvf > backup.tar.gz' says), so maybe you can create the directories manually > and use some appropriate set of --ex

RE: directories->files

2000-05-25 Thread Paul Clark
On Thu, 25 May 2000, Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote: > could you please paste a ls -al snippet? total 256 -rw-r--r-- 1 paul privilag 112898 Mar 2 15:34 key_feature -rw-r--r-- 1 paul privilag94842 Apr 24 12:20 menu_benefits -rw-r--r-- 1 paul privilag49644 Mar 2 15:33 prod

Re: directories->files

2000-05-25 Thread Colin Watson
Paul Clark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >I have just discovered after an extraction from a back up tar.gz >archive that some of my directories have turned into files. > >They look the right size for the old directories but I can't cd into >them. Is there a way to tell the system these files are in fa

RE: directories->files

2000-05-25 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 25-May-2000 Paul Clark wrote: > I have just discovered after an extraction from a back up tar.gz > archive that some of my directories have turned into files. > > They look the right size for the old directories but I can't cd into > them. Is there a way to tell the system these files are in f

directories->files

2000-05-25 Thread Paul Clark
I have just discovered after an extraction from a back up tar.gz archive that some of my directories have turned into files. They look the right size for the old directories but I can't cd into them. Is there a way to tell the system these files are in fact directories? Oh yes. They all appear to

Re: standard file system/directories/files/etc

1997-07-10 Thread Christian Kauhaus
Hi, On 10-Jul-97, Eloy A. Paris wrote: > Debian uses the Linux File System Standard. There are links to this > project's pages but I don't have them. Perhaps a search at > http://sunsite.unc.edu/mdw/ will give you the links you need. You can find the FSSTD an http://www.pathname.com/fhs Chri

Re: standard file system/directories/files/etc

1997-07-10 Thread Eloy A. Paris
Debian uses the Linux File System Standard. There are links to this project's pages but I don't have them. Perhaps a search at http://sunsite.unc.edu/mdw/ will give you the links you need. The main tool to install/maintain packages in Debian is called dselect. It is text based. A new tool is being

standard file system/directories/files/etc

1997-07-09 Thread Paul Miller
I haven't installed Debian yet, but I would like to know a little about it first.. Does Debian use standard files, directories, etc? I know RedHat doesn't and it is a real pain when getting help from anyone other than a RedHat user. Also, does Debian have configuration programs? If so, are ther