[ale] rsync error

[Jeff Lightner]

cpio?! - And here I thought I was the only tar apostate left in the world.

It could be worse - the old AT&T 3B2 400 has something called "ctccpio" that worked only on its ctc 1/4 inch tape drives.

-----Original Message-----
From: ale-bounces at ale.org [mailto:ale-bounces at ale.org] On Behalf Of Paul Cartwright
To: ale at ale.org
Sent: Wednesday, July 19, 2006 6:52 PM
To: Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts
Subject: Re: [ale] rsync error

On Sun July 16 2006 11:23 am, Benjie wrote:
> no prob. ?You should also be able to use cpio. ?Most distros ship
> with it.
>
hey, you are right, I DO have cpio !!!

> Benjie
>
> On 7/16/06, Paul Cartwright <paul_tbot at pcartwright.com> wrote:
> > On Sat July 15 2006 11:52 pm, Benjie wrote:
> > > Yes. Its an archive file. You can do "tar cvf
> > > /windows/E/name_of_archive.tar /home" and that will create a
> > > file called name_of_archive.tar that contains all of /home under
> > > /windows/E.
> >
> > yeah, I get it. I used to do cpio stuff on UNIX boxes, but I'm not
> > familiar with tar, other than letting konq un-tar it..
> > my options seem to be either move everything out of that partition
> > and reformat it to ext? so rsync works, or tar up the folder..

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