Date: Mon, 30 Sep 1996 12:12:16 PDT From: "Marty Leisner" <leisner@sdsp.mc.xerox.com> To: Gary Clark II <gclarkii@main.gbdata.com> Cc: davidn@sdev.blaze.net.au (David Nugent), hmmm@alaska.net, questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: spanning Message-ID: <9609301912.AA16424@gnu.sdsp.mc.xerox.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 25 Sep 1996 13:47:59 PDT." <199609252047.PAA05143@main.gbdata.com>
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> 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
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