I want to make an archive of my entire /home directory, which is on a separate partition, preparatory to burning the result to a DVD. (I'm pretty sure the compressed archive will fit into a DVD.) I am trying to do this with pax, and have not been successful, after spending most of a day in reading the man page, doing Google searches, and some experimenting. It seems safer to operate from a separate OS installation on the machine. I mount the partition to be archived (which is on sdb7) to /mnt. The target partition to receive the archive is sdb8. Trying to construct a proper pax instruction to do this has been very confusing, because the examples I have found don't always seem consistent, and are not fully explained. For example, the following (given from within the mounted sdb7). pax -wvf -pe /dev/sdb8 got me a complaint that it couldn't find sdb8, so didn't archive it. That partition _is_ there, and has an ext3 file system. -- Stan Goodman Qiryat Tiv'on Israel -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org