Asish, That's exactly what I wanted to know, thanks!!! That was quick...
;-) Kerry At 05:36 PM 9/26/02 +0530, Asish Balakrishnan wrote: >hi, >iam not clear about your question.in case you wanted to ask what would >happen when you untar at a place where a directory with the same name >exist the this is the reply. >if you tar a directory and then restore it later at a place there already >exist a directory by that name.then on untaring the directory would be >over written. >if you wanted to ask that when you tar a file will the old file continue >to be there then the answer is yes. >the second question:I hope the attached document answers yur second >question. > >Regards, >BAlakrishnan Asish > > >On Thu, 26 Sep 2002, Kerry Miller wrote: > >> Sorry for combining 2 questions, but they're both short! >> >> First, if I use "tar" to backup something then later restore it, will it >> wipe out anything that's in the existing directories? For example, if I >> tar up /usr/home/ to get all my home directories, if there is something >> under /usr/ will it wipe it out or just leave it? I think I'll have to >> experiment a little... >> >> Also, I know how to boot into single-user mode w/ Lilo, can somebody tell >> me how to do it w/ Grub or point me to a how-to? I can't find much about >> Grub in the how-tos but since I'm using it on my laptop I might need to >> know sometime! >> >> Thanks, >> Kerry >> >> >> >> > >-- >*************************************************************************** *** > The Ultimate Inspiration is the Deadline > Nolan Bushnell >*************************************************************************** **** >Asish Balakrishnan email-:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >2nd Year MCA >[EMAIL PROTECTED] >Dept of Computer Science >University of Pune >Pune-411007 > >Attachment Converted: "d:\temp\s1-rescuemode-booting-single.txt" > -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=unsubscribe https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
