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| From: | Neil Bothwick <neil@××××××××××.uk> | ||
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| To: | gentoo-user@l.g.o | ||
| Subject: | Re: [gentoo-user] Question about making a tarball | ||
| Date: | Thu, 30 Apr 2009 22:32:06 | ||
| Message-Id: | 20090430233155.5e425c34@krikkit.digimed.co.uk | ||
| In Reply to: | [gentoo-user] Question about making a tarball by Dale |
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| 1 | On Thu, 30 Apr 2009 14:44:57 -0500, Dale wrote: |
| 2 | |
| 3 | > How do I tell tar when I am making the tarball to look at /mnt/gentoo/ |
| 4 | > as it start point, root directory if you will? I read the man page but |
| 5 | > suspect I am missing it somewhere. There has to be a way since it is |
| 6 | > done that way for the stage 3 tarball. |
| 7 | |
| 8 | The same way you change directory when you extract, with -C. |
| 9 | |
| 10 | tar cf archive.tar -C /mnt/gentoo . |
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| 12 | |
| 13 | -- |
| 14 | Neil Bothwick |
| 15 | |
| 16 | "Who is the oldest inhabitant of this village?" |
| 17 | "We haven't got one; we had one, but he died three weeks ago." |
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| Re: [gentoo-user] Question about making a tarball | Dale <rdalek1967@×××××.com> |
| Re: [gentoo-user] Question about making a tarball | Joerg.Schilling@fokus.fraunhofer.de (Joerg Schilling) |