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Date:      Sat, 21 Sep 2019 09:38:01 +0100
From:      Steve O'Hara-Smith <steve@sohara.org>
To:        Victor Sudakov <vas@mpeks.tomsk.su>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: multi-volume archives
Message-ID:  <20190921093801.4638945715fe79eb6a99b36f@sohara.org>
In-Reply-To: <20190921063003.GA81956@admin.sibptus.ru>
References:  <20190921063003.GA81956@admin.sibptus.ru>

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On Sat, 21 Sep 2019 13:30:03 +0700
Victor Sudakov <vas@mpeks.tomsk.su> wrote:

> Dear Colleagues,
> 
> Which is now the most convenient way to create multi-volume archives? To
> fit an archive on a FAT32 flash drive, a volume size should not exceed
> 4g. 

	Gnu tar (in ports/packages as gtar) has support for multi-volume
splitting (-M) which by default prompts for the next volume to be installed
(so you could write direct to the flash drive) or can use a script to
generate the next volume filename. I vaguely recall using it a long time
ago.

-- 
Steve O'Hara-Smith <steve@sohara.org>



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