Re: Getting *everything* in a tar-file

From: Grant Edwards (grante_at_visi.com)
Date: 03/08/04 

Date: 08 Mar 2004 14:59:46 GMT

On 2004-03-08, egon.rath@gespag.at <egon.rath@gespag.at> wrote:
> In comp.os.linux.misc Baard Ove Kopperud <baard.kopperud@bigfoot.com> wrote:
>> [blabla...]
>
> To compress the entire filesystem starting from root:
> tar -cf myfile.tar /

That command just archives -- it doesn't compress anything. If
you wan to do compression, then you add the 'z' or 'j' flags to
enable gzip or bzip2 compression, respectively. 

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