I don't have much experience in this so I may be saying something dumb but
will you have access in Windows to the files in the tar?  I only ask because
I once copied my home directory onto a NTFS external drive to back it up and
when I didn't need it anymore I tried to delete it but was unable to delete
a bunch of it.  I finally had to use another Linux install to get rid of it.

Matthias Johnson

On Thu, Mar 10, 2011 at 1:39 PM, Eric Myers <[email protected]> wrote:


> It looks like 7-zip, which is a free GPL'd archive tool for Windows,
> can create and restore tar archives.    So pack up the windows files
> you want with 7-zip, and unpack what you want on the Unix side with tar.
>
> (I have not tried this myself, it's just a suggestion to try.)
>
>  -Eric
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