Re: dumb question about tar

2008-07-19 Thread James Youngman
On Thu, Jul 17, 2008 at 7:16 PM, David Denney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello all, > When you tar a file (i.e. a backup) to a destination disk, does tar build > the file on the destination disk, or does it create it in a tmp file, > memory, etc then move it to the final destination? I have to t

Re: dumb question about tar

2008-07-17 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 07/17/08 13:16, David Denney wrote: > Hello all, > When you tar a file (i.e. a backup) to a destination disk, does tar build > the file on the destination disk, or does it create it in a tmp file, > memory, etc then move it to the final destination?