I would definately like to know the answer to that one myself. Are there any hints in the man pages. I've looked there myself and to date haven't seen anything. At least nothing that I remember. Think maybe I'll look again. Mark Sevatio Octavio wrote: > > Hi all, > > I'm trying to backup my partitions onto CD-RW discs. > > How do you tar and gzip a partition into 650MB segments? > > Thanks, Seve