Re: detecting the size of a tarball

2003-11-05 Thread Sergey 'DoubleF' Zaharchenko
On Tue, 04 Nov 2003 16:10:08 -0700 David Bear <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> probably wrote: > I have a 100 mg zip drive that I'm writing to as a raw device -- no > file system -- just 'tar cvf /dev/afd0 stuff'. I am curious if there > is a way to find out how big the tarball is on this kind of thing. > I'm

Re: detecting the size of a tarball

2003-11-04 Thread Erik Steffl
David Bear wrote: I have a 100 mg zip drive that I'm writing to as a raw device -- no file system -- just 'tar cvf /dev/afd0 stuff'. I am curious if there is a way to find out how big the tarball is on this kind of thing. I'm guessing maybe some kind of seek to EOF but not sure how it might be acc

detecting the size of a tarball

2003-11-04 Thread David Bear
I have a 100 mg zip drive that I'm writing to as a raw device -- no file system -- just 'tar cvf /dev/afd0 stuff'. I am curious if there is a way to find out how big the tarball is on this kind of thing. I'm guessing maybe some kind of seek to EOF but not sure how it might be accomplished. any id