I successfully tarred my home and root directories to a spare partition and then reinstalled my system. When I wanted to restore things I used from /homeUpon hitting return the cursor just blinks in the next line and nothing happens, no output, no hd-activity, nothing. ps gives the status of tar as "S" (sleeping?). Why? How do I wake it?

Explanation: the File /work/restore-home contains just one line, i.e. /home to extract only home out of the archive into /home proper. Any ideas??

The command :

tar -xvpPT /work/restore-home /work/root+home.tar

is missing the -f thingy.

AFAIK tar will then asume it must read from std-in,
handy if you want to use tar in a situation using pipes.....

I think it should read:

tar -xvpPT /work/restore-home -f work/root+home.tar

You could also just untar the whole tar somewhere where you have enough space,
and then just move the newly created dirs whereever you like.

By the way, this is a very practical example why it could be usefull to have /home on a different partition .-)

By the way(2) don't use things like + in filenames,
it will give you headaches some day.....

Uargh I knew it had to be something simple, I mean I read the man page forward, backward, from both sides and from behind ... everything so simple and clear ...

Btw. home has its own partition in a LVM volume group named /dev/vg/home but that didn't help. (I reinstalled via Konqueror btw. but that doesn't care for the permissions so I had to "chown" and "chgrp" as root but no sweat here.

Btw. why is a "+" in file names dangerous? The system does it all the while (like in lost+fount etc.)

Thanks for your -fast- help .

Hi,

I can't realy say + signs are dangerous,
but I consider them 'bad style'.

I'm a Java / Oracle / Web / Bash whatever developer
coding in a mixed Linux and win32 enviroment

AFAIK a + must be urlencoded when used in links,
our documents are often linked,
so not using these kind of characters in the first place
saves a lot of headaches later.

(I dont use spaces in my filenames either,
for pretty much the same reasons)

I wouldn't say it is dangerous,
but mark my words:
one day you will understand what I have told you

Ah, understood. Thanks again and bye .