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Yurij
Asked: 2019-08-20 00:28:50 +0800 CST

tar command junkfiles how to find it out

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Running tar -cvzf mntpointtoexternaldrive\myarchive.tar.gz /home/user eats alls free space on /home/user disk (same as system disk) and stop with error no left space message. Where can i find the junk tar files to free up space and how to backup home dir from commandline?

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  1. If you have extract the tar file to home. You can run 

    du -ah --max-depth=1 ~/

    to figure out which fold take most space.

    Or check the tar file with out extract tar.

    tar vtf your.tar.gz

    If you want to backup your home dir, you can exclude some path like this:

    tar --exclude /path -zcvf file.tar.gz /etc /home
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