tar cvfb somefilename.tar 40 some_files_to_tar_up
would work just fine, putting whatever matched some_files_to_tar_up in somefilename.tar . Try it for yourself. No need to badmouth an old Slackware manual (or demand a refund from poor old Patrick) for saying to do it this way.
OTOH, old Slackware manuals are ... well, old, and tar has an unfortunate tendency to change its parameter meanings from time to time. I don't have a ready way to check what the k parameter did way back when Slackware 3 was current (October 1995, according to my genuine Slackware CD), but these days it has nothing to do with multi-volume settings. Check the man page to see this.
I don't tar to floppies here, so I've not tried it, but I'd suggest your seeing if the -M (multi-volume) parameter can be used to do what you want.
At 06:35 PM 12/6/02 -0500, 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, Chuckdashielljt wrote: > > maybe tar cvbkf /dev ... will work. <snip>
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