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Re: [gentoo-user] tar a brand new Gentoo install to a USB drive
for safe keeping?

Neil Bothwick

2008-05-05

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On Mon, 5 May 2008 00:04:44 -0400, Ian Graeme Hilt wrote:

> > tar xvfp SYSTEM.tar.bz2
>
> To extract bzip2 files with tar, you need to add the "j" option.

That hasn't been needed for a long time. Tar is able to detect bzip2 and
gzip compression and handle it automatically.


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Neil Bothwick

The nice thing about Windows is - It does not just crash,
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