From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Jul 6 7:57:30 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from kermit.netivity.nl (wc-68.r-195-85-144.essentkabel.com [195.85.144.68]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5982D37B409 for ; Fri, 6 Jul 2001 07:57:27 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from enriko.groen@netivity.nl) Received: by KERMIT with Internet Mail Service (5.5.2650.21) id <32P3XFAT>; Fri, 6 Jul 2001 16:57:21 +0200 Message-ID: <510EAC2065C0D311929200A0247252622F7986@NETIVITY-FS> From: Enriko Groen To: 'The Almonds' , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: RE: Newbie:Tar Help! Date: Fri, 6 Jul 2001 16:57:20 +0200 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Internet Mail Service (5.5.2650.21) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > -----Original Message----- > From: The Almonds [mailto:cjalmond@yahoo.com] > Trying to uncompress a .tar file downloaded form > www.soliddata.com/products/readme.txt named > iotest31.tar. I have tried tar -xv iotest31.tar with > my TAPE environment set to the /usr partition > (/dev/ad0s2f) I get the error tar: iotest31.tar not > found in archive. Any help would be great on this. try tar -xvf TAR was made to archive data to tape... It's natural behaviour is to use a tapedrive. The '-f' option is to force it to use a file. > Also, I need to create many large files. I remember > you could create a file with a specified file size > with SunOS. Does anyone know that command? Is this still related to tar files... tar files of a certain size? man tar knows the answer -- Enriko Groen, Hosting manager -------------------------------------------------------- netivity bv www.netivity.nl enriko.groen@netivity.nl 038 - 850 1000 van nagellstraat 4 8011 eb zwolle -------------------------------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message