> -----Original Message----- > From: Neil Bothwick [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: 24 March 2006 09:24 > To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org > Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] How to tar? [snip...] > > Yes, but GNU tar cannot do that, it can only do one command at a > > time, either --extract or --delete or ... > > The simplest solution is probably to make several smaller tarballs > instead on one containing the whole of /usr.
Thanks for all the suggestions. I ended up breaking up /usr into smaller directories and I have now migrated the fs onto the laptop. :-) However, I tried the --exclude FILE option and could not get it to work. In particular, I had a go with these: =========================== --exclude /mnt/hda5/portage/* --exclude /mnt/hda5/portage --exclude portage --exclude=/mnt/hda5/portage/* . . . etc. =========================== I even used ' ' to enclose the path/pattern but I just couldn't get it to work. :-( What did I do wrong? -- Regards, Mick -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
