On Tuesday, September 3, 2019 10:03:21 PM MST ToddAndMargo via users wrote:
Hi All,
I have a flash drive with about four partitions on is. Lets call it /dev/sdc.
Can I tar sdc or am I stuck with tarring the partitions?
Any drawback to this?
If you were to `tar` it, you'd be making an archive with a single file named 'sdc'. I suggest you do this:
dd if=/dev/sdc of=/path/to/file gzip /path/to/file
(Feel free to use some other software for compression)