Thankyou. This is what I wanted but I guess that you can't use the free
space left on the last disk? After tarring on the floppies, I could
untar using tar -Mxvf /dev/fd0 but I could not mount those floppies.
What is the filesystem created on the floppies?
Uk
Robin Chatterjee wrote:
>
> tar -Mcvf /dev/fd0 /test/*.*
>
> UK Jaiswal wrote:
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > What would be the way to copy very big files on to floppies in linux. In
> > DOS, you could "pkzip -& a:xyz.zip big_file.exe"
> > I tried using "tar -cMvf /mnt/floppy/xyz.tar 8_mb_file.tar.gz" but it
> > did not work.
> >
> > Uk
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