21 Sep
2001
21 Sep
'01
00:11
On Thursday 20 September 2001 8:53 pm, Dennis J. Tuchler wrote:
I would like to back up all the directories, etc on a particular partition. The mount point for that partition is /, but that partition does not include all directories that branch off the / directory.
1) How do I assure that all subdirectories and files are included in a tar ball? 2) How do I tar / without including the whole linux installation, but rather only the stuff on /, so that I can restore it after I resize the partition?
tar -cv /path/to/destination_file / M