Take the b option out of there completely I think. Blocks are used for tapes but not normally disk devices such as floppy disks.
Jude <dashielljt(at)gmpexpress-dot-net> On Fri, 6 Dec 2002, Chuck Gelm wrote: > Howdy, dashielljt: > > I was thinking along the same lines. I am only familiar > with the last option being 'f'. Yet I noticed that the 'b' > command needs an operator too. Perhaps the operators are > appended in the same order they are requested by the options. > 'f' filename.ext or /dev/* > 'b' block size > 'k' ? > i.e. > tar cvfbk /dev/fd0 1440 4 / > \\\ > \\k = 4 > \b = 1440 > f = /dev/fd0 > ? > HTH, Chuck > > dashielljt wrote: > > > > maybe tar cvbkf /dev ... will work. > <snip> > - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-newbie" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.linux-learn.org/faqs
