Re: File rescue

[John Sheahan <jrsheahan-at-optushome.com.au>]

On Wed, Feb 05, 2003 at 01:32:00AM -0500, Jon Elson wrote:
> You could compress and backup files from the hard drive with something 
> like :
> 
> tar czvf backup.tgz /mnt/floppy/xx

a slight variant of this syntax which might be more useful is:
tar czf backup.tgz -C /mnt/floppy ,

this makes the contents of the tarfile reflect the old top level.
(or at least where the old partition was mounted from)
Otherwise you get mnt/floppy all through it which you might not want.

john