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Chris <cpuburner@gmail.com> writes:

> The tar one-liner is similar what I used to use on Gentoo and Arch linux,
> so I thought it strange that it isn't working here. I'm still having
> problems though, since the command returns " Can't create '$FILENAME' " for
> all files found.

It would have been a good idea to show us the command you used that
produced this.  Without that, all we can do is say "I don't know; it
works for me!"