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Old 05-02-2006
FredSmith FredSmith is offline
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tar'ing and zipping files
If I have a directory /directory1 and want to tar and zip everything in it into a file new_tar.tar.gz on disk (not tape)

How can I do it?

I tried tar -cv /new_tar.tar /directory1/*

But I got an error: tar: /dev/rmt/0: No such device or address