Date: Sun, 22 Sep 2019 01:25:58 +0700 From: Victor Sudakov <vas@mpeks.tomsk.su> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: multi-volume archives Message-ID: <20190921182558.GB15412@admin.sibptus.ru> In-Reply-To: <20190921093801.4638945715fe79eb6a99b36f@sohara.org> References: <20190921063003.GA81956@admin.sibptus.ru> <20190921093801.4638945715fe79eb6a99b36f@sohara.org>
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--aVD9QWMuhilNxW9f Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Steve O'Hara-Smith wrote: > >=20 > > 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.=20 >=20 > Gnu tar (in ports/packages as gtar) has support for multi-volume > splitting (-M) which by default prompts for the next volume to be install= ed > (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. I'm even old enough to remember that BSD tar could do the same, and I used this feature with magnetic tapes, but after the introduction of libarchive, the BSD tar lost this ability. However, this understanding of multiple volumes is not convenient for writing to a formatted flash drive. --=20 Victor Sudakov, VAS4-RIPE, VAS47-RIPN 2:5005/49@fidonet http://vas.tomsk.ru/ --aVD9QWMuhilNxW9f Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iQEcBAEBAgAGBQJdhms2AAoJEA2k8lmbXsY0LvcH/jfZjdEXtMOJYLNCsAx64DHr cWRZKRYFW49BQ/k8cx1mI+ws+XGcKrRCkYasPFpJ+01GT7vIHwHS/o75UWMlpLcg KEssq0OkBw/L8AMIDoc7Hq380HzWNDSZwmtKy/rN7nr62uuwDLXcn2Ki+nsE4jS8 r79GDlOaK00BlnhVHF3w1MDFmADcRHzMDOYTcRkixT5NBY4BRJxZcovtSuUT8fFn IQKTsz+weBDTikQBHDBjr0uwg7AlTT0wzRHx0fHNAozbsSgGsmGxCYsgyZXh9EEL l+1Wt2KXE7me1SoZZHOdGAYRcwtUxdSFweG4J14LPRDPjDASz9IV21v4XW4bl98= =PMdD -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --aVD9QWMuhilNxW9f--
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