Problem with Archiving .tar

[Carl Spitzer]

On Tue, 2007-10-30 at 13:39 -0400, Richard wrote:
> Since using (K)ubuntu 5 - 7.04 never had a problem with doing this.
> in my home directory there is .kde dir, then share dir, then apps dir,
> I used to do this: right click on the apps dir,  and select compress as .tar
> 
> Then I would move that apps.tar to my external usb drive for archive/Backup
> However... been trying to do this since monday, for some reason, it looks
> like the compression schema is hanging or something is interfering with compression
> the folder size is 1.6 GB previouse folder size (7.04) was 1.4 GB
> 
> So, what gives ? I did compress a small file 500 mb on my desktop (no-problem)
> but doing inside my home directory, there seems to be problem.
> 
> 
> Anyone ?
> 

Now your in Linux and the command line is your friend.
BG despises the simplicity of the command line for a complicated and
slow GUI.

man tar since Ubuntu is debian.  Most have a info man file because GNU
is said to prefer it.

The dot directories are invisible and there may be dot files within the
dot directory or its sub directories.

tar --usage



tar cf archive.tar.gz -z file
tar cvf archive.tar.gz -z file   for a simple file listing
tar cvvf archive.tar.gz -z file  for a listing similar to ls -l



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