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→Preparing for and packing template cache: use --numeric-owner option for tar
Now create a cached OS tarball. In the command below, you'll want to replace <arch> with your architecture (i386, amd64, ia64, etc). '''Note the space and the dot at the end of the command'''.
[HW]# tar --numeric-owner -czf /vz/template/cache/ubuntu-7.10-<arch>-minimal.tar.gz .
Look at the resulting tarball to see its size is sane: