Here is a little tip about using Tar. If you want to exclude multiple files or folders and are using a wildcard "*" , then you should put --exclude in front of every "path/to/file/*".
tar -zPcf /media/sda4/test/bkp/1.tar.gz /media/sda4/test/ --exclude "/media/sda4/test/d1/*" --exclude "/media/sda4/test/1/*"The above would tar a the test folder to the backup folder, without the contents of d1 and 1.
i am starting my migration from arch to ubuntu, as the later has better out of the box support for different things that i dont want to be bothered with configuring. For this i need to wait for my new external hdd, as so that i fully reformat my system, my 2 largest partitions are still fat32 (from XP).
What I want to do is divide the hdd into root (system 5g), home (were i keep my documents 4g), the rest will be just one giant partition with all of my media.
This move will help me concentrate on my work more , as i wont have to tinker with the system that mush .
If you want to learn about linux this is the way to go, it is (relatively) easy to use, and it would teach you the linux basics. The best part is at the end you get a stable OS running on your pc with the applications that you use and nothing more. Everything is kept updated thanks to a little thing called pacman. This is not a technical review about Arch, just a little something for more info take a look at their site.
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