On Mon, 03 Mar 2003 11:38, David E. Fox wrote: > > What number of 1k blocks will fit on a 1.44Mb DOS floppy? (I dont know > > where to read the available space. I can see usage with 'df' or in konq, > > but not free space.) > > Like another poster said, 1440 1K blocks. On the other hand, that > assumes you don't put a filesystem on it, which would take up some > portion of the available space. >
My impression was it was a 2Mb RAW disk and when the filesystem (DOS) is written to it. 1.44MB remains. > > Do you create the volumed tarball direct to floppy's or on the hard drive > > first? > > Either. But you can send the tar right to the floppy, without creating > a file system first. You just need to visualize the floppy disk as a > short, flattened tape :). > > # tar -cvf /dev/fd0 /path/to/data Your saying that it will just say "put in next floppy" like winzip does? Doh, if this works, then the previous question is redundant. -- Michael
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