From: Ian Graeme Hilt <ian.hilt@gmail.com>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] tar a brand new Gentoo install to a USB drive for safe keeping?
Date: Mon, 5 May 2008 08:17:01 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080505121701.GA31281@sys-0.woh.rr.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080505093749.7a5faf56@loonquawl.digimed.co.uk>
On Mon, May 05, 2008 at 09:37:49AM +0100, Neil Bothwick wrote:
> On Mon, 5 May 2008 00:04:44 -0400, Ian Graeme Hilt wrote:
>
> > > tar xvfp SYSTEM.tar.bz2
> >
> > 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.
You are correct. I didn't realize it could detect. Thanks for
the info.
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Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-05-04 1:06 [gentoo-user] tar a brand new Gentoo install to a USB drive for safe keeping? Mark Knecht
2008-05-04 10:21 ` Jil Larner
2008-05-04 12:29 ` Neil Bothwick
2008-05-04 15:25 ` Mark Knecht
2008-05-04 23:12 ` Mark Knecht
2008-05-05 0:41 ` Mark Shields
2008-05-05 1:20 ` Mark Knecht
2008-05-05 2:54 ` Mark Knecht
2008-05-05 4:04 ` Ian Graeme Hilt
2008-05-05 8:37 ` Neil Bothwick
2008-05-05 12:17 ` Ian Graeme Hilt [this message]
2008-05-05 12:35 ` Neil Bothwick
2008-05-06 12:40 ` [gentoo-user] " Michael Schmarck
2008-05-06 21:33 ` Neil Bothwick
2008-05-08 8:00 ` [gentoo-user] " Michael Schmarck
2008-05-07 16:01 ` [gentoo-user] " Steven Lembark
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