On Tuesday, September 3, 2019 10:03:21 PM MST ToddAndMargo via users wrote: > Hi All, > > I have a flash drive with about four partitions on is. > Lets call it /dev/sdc. > > Can I tar sdc or am I stuck with tarring the partitions? > > Any drawback to this?
If you were to `tar` it, you'd be making an archive with a single file named 'sdc'. I suggest you do this: dd if=/dev/sdc of=/path/to/file gzip /path/to/file (Feel free to use some other software for compression) -- John M. Harris, Jr. <joh...@splentity.com> Splentity https://splentity.com/ _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@lists.fedoraproject.org
