Script for friendlier home partition under other OS

[Magnus Therning]

On Mon, Jun 06, 2005 at 07:56:31PM +0100, Gábor Iglói wrote:
>Hello!
>
>I'm trying to solve the following problem with an init/shutdown script:
>
>If one is holding his/her home on a different partition from / and
>using a dual-boot system it is a bit confusing that the hidden
>.folders and .files are all visible under another OSs.
>
>I'd like to solve the problem with a pair of scripts: on Ubuntu bootup
>it would untar all hidden folders/files of the user's home folder from
>a tar file somewhere in the filesystem. And during shutdown another
>script would tar all of the user's hidden home folders and files - but
>just these. With a bootup check for the existence of the tar file I
>could avoid situations when the user exited Linux foolishly thus
>missing the creation of the tar file (e.g. after pressing the Reset
>button by accident).
>
>Problem is that I didn't manage to find out the correct syntax for
>tarring ONLY the hidden files/folders. I tried the following:
>
>cd /home/user
>tar -cvzf /someplace/home.tgz .*
>
>This will tar the whole home folder hidden an normal files too.
>
>tar -cvzf /someplace/home.tgz --exclude=./* .*
>
>This does the same - don't understand why.

Hmm, strange, I can't reproduce your problem with the first commandline.
Very strange. Well, what you can try is to use .??* instead of .*, it
should exclude both ./ and ../.

/M

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