Date: Fri, 6 Jul 2001 16:57:20 +0200 From: Enriko Groen <enriko.groen@netivity.nl> To: 'The Almonds' <cjalmond@yahoo.com>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: RE: Newbie:Tar Help! Message-ID: <510EAC2065C0D311929200A0247252622F7986@NETIVITY-FS>
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> -----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 <filename> 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
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