tar cheatsheet
Compress a folder and generate a tar.gz file:
tar -zcvf tarfilename.tar.gz source/folder
Extract a tar.gz file:
tar -zxvf tarfilename.tar.gz
Generate a disk ISO and compress it:
dd if=/dev/hda1 | gzip > /tmp/image.gz
Compress a folder and generate a tar.gz file:
tar -zcvf tarfilename.tar.gz source/folder
Extract a tar.gz file:
tar -zxvf tarfilename.tar.gz
Generate a disk ISO and compress it:
dd if=/dev/hda1 | gzip > /tmp/image.gz