[kde-linux] deleted .kde

[Kevin Krammer]

On Thursday 27 December 2007, david wrote:
> Kevin Krammer wrote:
> > On Thursday 27 December 2007, david wrote:
> >> You'll also need to change ownership of your copied .kde folder - it
> >> needs to belong to the correct user ID. On my Debian systems (using
> >> private groups), that would be "chown -R your_user_ID:your_user_ID
> >> ~.kde" for the .kde folder and everything in it.
> >
> > This is whyI always recommend using tar, because it creates the files
> > with the current user's identity on extraction.
>
> The problem with tar (for me) is it creates a single big file. In my
> case, about 36GB big for my home directory. Too big for the older SMB
> support to move around on the network (haven't tried Etch's CIFS support
> yet). Hard to keep offline backups on optical media.

I see.

This is quite offtopic now, but you could let tar write to stdout instead of a 
file and pipe the output through "split" :)

Cheers,
Kevin

-- 
Kevin Krammer, KDE developer, xdg-utils developer
KDE user support, developer mentoring
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