From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Sep 30 12:15:29 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id MAA29663 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 30 Sep 1996 12:15:29 -0700 (PDT) Received: from alpha.xerox.com (alpha.Xerox.COM [13.1.64.93]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id MAA29543 for ; Mon, 30 Sep 1996 12:15:21 -0700 (PDT) Received: from gemini.sdsp.mc.xerox.com ([13.231.132.20]) by alpha.xerox.com with SMTP id <14613(8)>; Mon, 30 Sep 1996 12:14:42 PDT Received: from gnu.sdsp.mc.xerox.com (gnu.sdsp.mc.xerox.com [13.231.133.90]) by gemini.sdsp.mc.xerox.com (8.7.6/8.7.5) with SMTP id PAA05397; Mon, 30 Sep 1996 15:12:19 -0400 (EDT) Received: by gnu.sdsp.mc.xerox.com (4.1/client-1.3) id AA16424; Mon, 30 Sep 96 15:12:18 EDT Message-Id: <9609301912.AA16424@gnu.sdsp.mc.xerox.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 1.6.7 5/3/96 To: Gary Clark II Cc: davidn@sdev.blaze.net.au (David Nugent), hmmm@alaska.net, questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: spanning In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 25 Sep 1996 13:47:59 PDT." <199609252047.PAA05143@main.gbdata.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Mon, 30 Sep 1996 12:12:16 PDT From: "Marty Leisner" Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > David Nugent wrote: > > On Tue, 24 Sep 1996, hmmm wrote: > > > > >is there a simple method to span floppies (like pkzip &) > > >when cp-ing and/or tarballing? > > > > tar/gzip + split. > > Try 'tar cvMLf 1435 /dev/rfd0a directory'. Works just fine. > To unarchive it, do 'tar xvMLf 1435 /dev/rfd0a'. > > > I've had problems with that...If your media isn't "perfect", this fails. Also, the -W flag (which I use all the time) conflicts with the -M option. I use split, make floppy sized chunks, then tar each chunk to a floppy with the -W option...then I cat them together after I untarred them. Its saved a lot of aspirin. -- marty leisner@sdsp.mc.xerox.com Member of the League for Programming Freedom