Date: Fri, 6 Jul 2001 16:53:33 +0100 From: Paul Branston <apbran@rannoch.demon.co.uk> To: Enriko Groen <enriko.groen@netivity.nl> Cc: "'The Almonds'" <cjalmond@yahoo.com>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Newbie:Tar Help! Message-ID: <20010706165333.J21224@rannoch.demon.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <510EAC2065C0D311929200A0247252622F7986@NETIVITY-FS>; from enriko.groen@netivity.nl on Fri, Jul 06, 2001 at 04:57:20PM %2B0200 References: <510EAC2065C0D311929200A0247252622F7986@NETIVITY-FS>
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On Fri, Jul 06, 2001 at 04:57:20PM +0200, Enriko Groen wrote: > > -----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? > you can use dd dd if=/dev/zero of=newfile bs=1024 count=100 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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