Strategy for customized home dir

[tzafrir.cohen at xorcom.com (Tzafrir Cohen)]

On Tue, Nov 13, 2007 at 10:31:00PM +1100, Trent W. Buck wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 13, 2007 at 12:02:47PM +0100, Michael Creel wrote:
> > To create a customized home dir, I'm thinking of using the script
> > 
> > #!/bin/bash
> > echo "extracting pkuser home dir"
> > cd /home/pkuser
> > tar xfj /live/image/pkuser.bz2
>       ^^^
> 
> IIRC, the f switch has to be last (i.e. immediately followed by its
> argument).  Also, convention would be to name the file
> <whatever>.tar.bz2, not simply <whatever>.bz2.

Actually, if you're using gnu tar version of Etch, you don't really need
the options 'j' or 'z' .

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