tar cvf - . | wc -c
If that's what you really want to do. You could also use -zcvf to get
compression. Or you could just say df -k to see how much space is
consumed.
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On Thu, 9 Mar 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
=>All,
=> I was wondering if there is a way to see how big an archive would be if I were
=>to tar an entire disk. What I want to do is pull the harddrive out of one box
=>and put it into another, but keep the content of the drive the same. I'm going
=>to have to make all sorts of changes to the system because of different
=>hardware, etc. so I want to have a complete back-up before I do it. I figure
=>that the easiest way to do it is to tar the entire filesystem up and move it to
=>a different system, but I want to know how big it is before I run out of space.
=>TIA,
=>Kenny
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