On Thu, 30 Apr 2009 14:44:57 -0500, Dale wrote: > How do I tell tar when I am making the tarball to look at /mnt/gentoo/ > as it start point, root directory if you will? I read the man page but > suspect I am missing it somewhere. There has to be a way since it is > done that way for the stage 3 tarball.
The same way you change directory when you extract, with -C. tar cf archive.tar -C /mnt/gentoo . -- Neil Bothwick "Who is the oldest inhabitant of this village?" "We haven't got one; we had one, but he died three weeks ago."
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