Gentoo Archives: gentoo-user

From:	Ian Graeme Hilt <ian.hilt@×××××.com>
To:	gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject:	Re: [gentoo-user] tar a brand new Gentoo install to a USB drive for safe keeping?
Date:	Mon, 05 May 2008 12:17:05
Message-Id:	`20080505121701.GA31281@sys-0.woh.rr.com`
In Reply to:	Re: [gentoo-user] tar a brand new Gentoo install to a USB drive for safe keeping? by Neil Bothwick

1	On Mon, May 05, 2008 at 09:37:49AM +0100, Neil Bothwick wrote:
2	> On Mon, 5 May 2008 00:04:44 -0400, Ian Graeme Hilt wrote:
3	>
4	> > > tar xvfp SYSTEM.tar.bz2
5	> >
6	> > To extract bzip2 files with tar, you need to add the "j" option.
7	>
8	> That hasn't been needed for a long time. Tar is able to detect bzip2 and
9	> gzip compression and handle it automatically.
10
11	You are correct. I didn't realize it could detect. Thanks for
12	the info.
13
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Re: [gentoo-user] tar a brand new Gentoo install to a USB drive for safe keeping?	Neil Bothwick <neil@××××××××××.uk>