> From: users-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx [users-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Frank Cox [theatre@xxxxxxxxxxx] > > The easiest solution is to extract the tarball and move (with the mv command) > the marcia directory into /home on completion. First... you can always just view the table of contents, -t option, to see what names are embedded in the archive. Second, a quick test shows that "tar" stripped the leading slash when creating the archive: $ cd $HOME $ tar cvf a.tar /tmp/file1 tar: Removing leading `/' from member names /tmp/file1 $ tar tvf a,tar -rw-r--r-- user/group 403 2009-11-17 14:05 tmp/file1 - Jon -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines