From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Sep 3 08:12:06 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id IAA28534 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Thu, 3 Sep 1998 08:12:06 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from rucus.ru.ac.za (rucus.ru.ac.za [146.231.29.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id IAA28392 for ; Thu, 3 Sep 1998 08:11:33 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from nbm@rucus.ru.ac.za) Received: (qmail 22544 invoked by uid 1003); 3 Sep 1998 14:05:18 -0000 Message-ID: <19980903160517.A22121@rucus.ru.ac.za> Date: Thu, 3 Sep 1998 16:05:17 +0200 From: Neil Blakey-Milner To: Lanny Baron , questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: problem untaring to right dir References: <000701bdd735$b8c998a0$2a8a4018@ribs.cybertouch.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.93.2i In-Reply-To: <000701bdd735$b8c998a0$2a8a4018@ribs.cybertouch.org>; from Lanny Baron on Thu, Sep 03, 1998 at 08:23:56AM -0400 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu 1998-09-03 (08:23), Lanny Baron wrote: > I had to reinstall FreeBSD to 2.2.7. Before doing the reinstall I > tar'ed the /home/user dir. When trying to untar, it puts everything so that > it looks like this: /home/user/home/user > > How can i untar it so it puts it back as /home/user. The user in question > already has the active account with the original user.tar.gz file in it. tar xvzf user.tar.gz -C / Neil -- Neil Blakey-Milner nbm@rucus.ru.ac.za To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message