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