Date: Wed, 1 Dec 2004 07:57:32 +0200 From: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr> To: Mike Jeays <Mike.Jeays@rogers.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: USB Flash Drive Message-ID: <20041201055732.GD41749@gothmog.gr> In-Reply-To: <1101860962.10293.8.camel@chaucer> References: <e6ceb9d4041129211472c6503f@mail.gmail.com> <d9175cad041130005157f54651@mail.gmail.com> <41AC82A4.4080302@cogeco.ca> <1101860962.10293.8.camel@chaucer>
next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
On 2004-11-30 19:29, Mike Jeays <Mike.Jeays@rogers.com> wrote: > As a follow-up, I have had good success with putting a UFS on flash > drives. HEH :-) So, I'm not the only one who uses UFS on his USB flash drives. Nice! > They then make a great backup device, and you can keep all the file > permissions with either tar or cp -rp. The latter wastes some space, > but makes it very easy to recover single files. I do that a lot of times too. Extracting individual files from tar archives on a flash disk is not that hard: # cd /tmp # tar xzvf /mnt/jflash/mdoc/file.tgz mdoc/foo/bar/blah.mdoc
Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?20041201055732.GD41749>