From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([69.77.167.62] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1JswCs-0001CW-IK for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Mon, 05 May 2008 08:37:58 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 6AD99E0435; Mon, 5 May 2008 08:37:56 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail.digimed.co.uk (82-69-83-178.dsl.in-addr.zen.co.uk [82.69.83.178]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0763EE0435 for ; Mon, 5 May 2008 08:37:56 +0000 (UTC) Received: from loonquawl.digimed.co.uk (loonquawl.digimed.co.uk [192.168.1.5]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mail.digimed.co.uk (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 55399345A97 for ; Mon, 5 May 2008 09:37:55 +0100 (BST) Date: Mon, 5 May 2008 09:37:49 +0100 From: Neil Bothwick To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] tar a brand new Gentoo install to a USB drive for safe keeping? Message-ID: <20080505093749.7a5faf56@loonquawl.digimed.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <20080505040443.GA29986@sys-0.woh.rr.com> References: <5bdc1c8b0805031806k7a14e6d3v910c0957bd514e98@mail.gmail.com> <481D8E3B.10606@gnoo.eu> <5bdc1c8b0805040825w2a647669x15b8762422491655@mail.gmail.com> <5bdc1c8b0805041612j5f958d4cred584a5cfc929efc@mail.gmail.com> <20080505040443.GA29986@sys-0.woh.rr.com> Organization: Digital Media Production X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.4.0cvs22 (GTK+ 2.12.9; x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) X-GPG-Fingerprint: 7260 0F33 97EC 2F1E 7667 FE37 BA6E 1A97 4375 1903 Face: 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 Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="Sig_/3=a8KU5XcdagQK7X0KK5WKW"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=PGP-SHA1 X-Archives-Salt: 943fe990-07b9-40c8-ad4a-0b70bf8c6229 X-Archives-Hash: a90c63f0911691e050273b814aea8508 --Sig_/3=a8KU5XcdagQK7X0KK5WKW Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Mon, 5 May 2008 00:04:44 -0400, Ian Graeme Hilt wrote: > > tar xvfp SYSTEM.tar.bz2 =20 >=20 > To extract bzip2 files with tar, you need to add the "j" option. That hasn't been needed for a long time. Tar is able to detect bzip2 and gzip compression and handle it automatically. --=20 Neil Bothwick The nice thing about Windows is - It does not just crash, it displays adialog box and lets you press OK first. --Sig_/3=a8KU5XcdagQK7X0KK5WKW Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=signature.asc -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.9 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAkgex2IACgkQum4al0N1GQOdfwCgz9D449o9VDtIkFhIZidoLP6N PUgAn2AAxLr4LVyxfYLioZwMq0YofzRF =OD+X -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Sig_/3=a8KU5XcdagQK7X0KK5WKW-- -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list