Eric Wood wrote:
> I'm used to SCO's tar command in which it can't back up special files in
> /dev. Linux's tar command seemed to back them up with no problem. Are my
> eyes telling me the truth?
Linux's tar command (GNU's, actually) is 1000% better than any tar command
that comes with a commercial unix. And you seem to be forgetting that just
about everything in SCO is competely 100% suck when compared to Linux.
I've had to work with that frightening operating system for entirely too long.
Ick.
Another thing that the GNU tar command does very nicely, is not to store '/'
in the path of files backed up.
tar cvf foo.tar /etc/passwd
will store the file as
etc/passwd
So if you try to extract the tarball in say, /tmp,
it won't overwrite your /etc/passwd file.
which would happen if you did the same in SCO or Slowlaris.
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