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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
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Neil Blakey-Milner
nbm@rucus.ru.ac.za

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