it is a raw filesystem ..ie no filesystem . and you cannot use the space
on the last floppy.BAsically it just uses the floppy block by block. I
guess that could cause problems if the floppy has bad blocks...Don't
know if tar is clever enough to detect that.
Cheerio
Robin
UK Jaiswal wrote:
>
> 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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