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Neil Bothwick wrote: |
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> On Thu, 30 Apr 2009 14:44:57 -0500, Dale wrote: |
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>> How do I tell tar when I am making the tarball to look at /mnt/gentoo/ |
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>> as it start point, root directory if you will? I read the man page but |
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>> suspect I am missing it somewhere. There has to be a way since it is |
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>> done that way for the stage 3 tarball. |
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> The same way you change directory when you extract, with -C. |
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> tar cf archive.tar -C /mnt/gentoo . |
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Well, it don't like that here. I used your command and replaced with |
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the correct parts of course: |
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root@smoker / # tar cf /data/Gentoo-stuff/stage4-x86-04-2009.tar -C |
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/mnt/gentoo |
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tar: Cowardly refusing to create an empty archive |
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Try `tar --help' or `tar --usage' for more information. |
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root@smoker / # |
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I'm missing something that is likely very obvious here. |
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Dale |
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:-) :-) |
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