Date: Thu, 3 Sep 1998 16:05:17 +0200 From: Neil Blakey-Milner <nbm@rucus.ru.ac.za> To: Lanny Baron <beef@cybertouch.org>, questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: problem untaring to right dir Message-ID: <19980903160517.A22121@rucus.ru.ac.za> In-Reply-To: <000701bdd735$b8c998a0$2a8a4018@ribs.cybertouch.org>; from Lanny Baron on Thu, Sep 03, 1998 at 08:23:56AM -0400 References: <000701bdd735$b8c998a0$2a8a4018@ribs.cybertouch.org>
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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
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