From: Michael Schmarck <michael.schmarck@habmalnefrage.de>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: tar a brand new Gentoo install to a USB drive for safe keeping?
Date: Tue, 06 May 2008 14:40:08 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <fvpjj8$7ho$1@ger.gmane.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 20080505093749.7a5faf56@loonquawl.digimed.co.uk
Neil Bothwick <neil@digimed.co.uk> 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.
That's only true for GNU tar. If you're also dealing with other
systems where you might not have GNU tar, you might be "surprised"
to find that "tar xvf file.tgz" doesn't work.
Hence I think, that it is a good idea to keep on using z or j.
Michael
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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
2008-05-05 12:35 ` Neil Bothwick
2008-05-06 12:40 ` Michael Schmarck [this message]
2008-05-06 21:33 ` [gentoo-user] " Neil Bothwick
2008-05-08 8:00 ` [gentoo-user] " Michael Schmarck
2008-05-07 16:01 ` [gentoo-user] " Steven Lembark
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