[newbie] tar/zip then untar/unzip (in detail though )
Hi, Hi All, On my machine that dual boots Linux 8.1 and Win89 ( which I have no CD burner on ) I need to do the following: 1- tar and zip my /home folder and save it on the D: partition ( a win fat32 partition ) 2- I'll split the partition I have linux on right now into two partitions: / and /home 3- I'll do a fresh install 4- then I want to restore the /home I just saved on the win partition to the new /home I just created. I need somebody to tell me what are the commands I need to run for the taring and zipping, and then untarring and unzipping into the new /home directory :) ( in details please, but not with the regular: do a command -x option without the quots thing ) And If everything went fine,will my mail that I saved in a folder under KDE be saved as well ? or no ? thanks for your patience :) - Hanan AL-Shargi Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] tar/zip then untar/unzip (in detail though )
On Sun, 28 Apr 2002 18:32:05 -0400 Hanan Shargi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [...] I need somebody to tell me what are the commands I need to run for the taring and zipping, and then untarring and unzipping into the new /home directory :) as root, cd / tar -cWvf home.tar home/ gzip -v home.tar gzip -vt home.tar.gz All three commands provide verification. Alternatively you could do a bzme home.tar.gz as well, which will compress to a .bz2 saving (most of the time) some more space yet. -- Cheers dg Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] tar/zip then untar/unzip (in detail though )
On Monday 29 April 2002 01:32, Hanan Shargi wrote: Hi, Hi All, On my machine that dual boots Linux 8.1 and Win89 ( which I have no CD burner on ) I need to do the following: 1- tar and zip my /home folder and save it on the D: partition ( a win fat32 partition ) 2- I'll split the partition I have linux on right now into two partitions: / and /home 3- I'll do a fresh install 4- then I want to restore the /home I just saved on the win partition to the new /home I just created. I need somebody to tell me what are the commands I need to run for the taring and zipping, and then untarring and unzipping into the new /home directory :) ( in details please, but not with the regular: do a command -x option without the quots thing ) I don't know what you mean by that, but here goes su cd /home tar -cvf * home.tar # the -v option is not necessary, but I find it reassuring to see all those file names! gzip home.tar #actually, you can do these as one command, I think, but I always prefer the long way mv home.tar.gz /mnt/win_d # or whatever your D: drive is called after install ... mv /mnt/win_d/home.tar.gz /home tar -zxvf home.tar.gz Create a user for each home directory, then (as root, of course) for each directory chown -R fred /home/fred # or whoever chgrp -R fred /home/fred If you have a lot of users, it would be better to do this as a shell script And If everything went fine,will my mail that I saved in a folder under KDE be saved as well ? or no ? Yes Sir Robin Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] tar/zip then untar/unzip (in detail though )
Many Thanks Darwin Robin ...and they say Linux lacks the support !! cheers - Hanan AL-Shargi Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
