Re: tar cvfz test.tar.gz / gives error while untaring
On Sun, 29 Feb 2004, s. keeling wrote:
> Check the manpage. The "f" switch is used to tell tar that the next
> parameter is the file to use:
>
> tar cvzf test.tar.gz /
>
> Instead, cd to someplace with some space, then run it.
Yes, that is right ... my fault.
> By default, tar doesn't, so you must have done something wrong. Try:
>
> cd /
> tar cvzf /somewhere/test.tgz .
> cd /somewhere
> tar tvzf test.tgz
>
> Note the "." btw, tarring the whole root dir will tar the entire
> filesystem, including everything that's mounted off the root
> filesystem. man tar to find out how not to do that.
Yes surely, I did a lot of --exclude=/mnt --exclude=/dev ... that was not the
problem.
What I do not understand is:
I am in directory /home/me/TAR_EXAMPLE
Now I want to tar directory /tmp for example then I do
tar cvzf temp.test.tar.gz /tmp
Afterwards I receive in the directory /home/me/TAR_EXAMPLE the archive
temp.test.tar.gz which can be untared without any problems.
But ... trying to do
tar cvzf root.test.tar.gz / --exclude=home --exclude=/dev
I receive the archive root.test.tar.gz in directory /home/me/TAR_EXAMPLE
but trying to untar it gives me the mkdir-error-message.
Why is tar not processing the / directory like any other directory and why is
it adding a / when tar xvzf cannot untar it?
So the conclusion would be that trying to tar the / directory I have to cd
into that directory to make it working while with any other directory I can
start the tar-process from where ever I want?
Oliver
--
... don't touch the bang bang fruit
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