Re: du and tar: --exclude-from option

[email protected] (Jacob Elder)
Newsgroups gmane.comp.gnu.utils.bugs,gmane.comp.gnu.fileutils.bugs
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On Wed, Oct 30, 2002 at 05:05:02PM -0700, Bob Proulx wrote:
> 
> I am not convinced by this data that the exclude list is really the
> issue here.  It might be.  But the other confusion seems a much more
> likely explanation.
> 
> Bob
> 

So what is the idiomatic way to guess the size of an archive before writing
to tape?

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