Re: [gentoo-user] STAR options have me confused

[Mick]

On Sunday 01 February 2009, Joerg Schilling wrote:
> Mick <michaelkintzios@×××××.com> wrote:
> > Hi All,
> >
> > I do not seem to be able to run star with the correct options despite
> > some experimenting ... and was hoping you could correct my errors.
>
> Try the command lines from the example section in the man page ;-)

Thanks Joerg, it may not look like it but that's how I started.

> > I want to save the backup on a USB drive on /media/sda1.  Therefore I ran
> > star as root like this:
> >
> > # cd /dev/sda1
> > # star -xattr -H=exustar -c -f hda5_root1.star /media/hda5 -C /media/sda1
>
> This is a useless command line as -C /media/sda1 is executed after
> archiving /media/hda5.

Does this mean that I should have '-C /media/sda1' before '/media/hda5' ?
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Regards,
Mick