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Date: Wed, 14 Aug 2002 23:40:27 +0200
From: messmate <messmate@free.fr>
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Subject: Re: /dev/sa0
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On Wed, 14 Aug 2002 13:59:19 -0700
Nathan Kinkade <nkinkade@dsl-only.net> wrote:

| On Wed, 14 Aug 2002 22:46:49 +0200
| messmate <messmate@free.fr> wrote:
| 
| > Hello all,
| > 
| > have a pb with 'tar' ;  /dev/sa0 not configured ??
| > What about /dev/sa0 ?
| > And how to tar a directory ??
| > Thanks for help
| 
| What exact tar command are you issuing to get this error?  To tar up a
| directory do something like `tar cf archive.tar /home/user` - would tar
| up the dir /usr/user into a file called archive.tar.  See the tar
| manpage.
| 
| Nathan
| 
Thanks what I did was :
tar -R archive.tar  /directory
man tar said : in case of a directory use -R , isn't ?
Hééé I forgot the 'c'...I think.
messmate

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