Re: [newbie] tar > CD

[Raffaele Belardi]

man tar lists:
       -L, --tape-length N
              change tapes after writing N*1024 bytes
Unfortunately it seems it is not able to work together with 'z' 
(compress) option. If you type:

tar cf test.tar -L 200000 documents/

tar will create a first archive named test.tar, then stop requesting you 
to "Prepare volume #2 for `test.tar' and hit return:". At this point you 
need to rename test.tar to i.e. test1.tar otherwise tar will overwrite it.

Probably you could gzip the whole directory and then tar to small files 
as above.

raffaele

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Does anyone have a one liner that will tar.bz to CD sized volumes.

TIA



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