Michael,
there are several way's to do it, 2 of
them are:
1-compress it with 'bzip2'
2- do a 'dump'
See, execute 'man bzip2' and 'man dump'
on a term or console.
Eric


mcoady wrote:
> 
> Thanks to Ron and Eric for great assistance in getting the Zip drive working.
> 
> I see that this 100 meg. disk has 12 blockgroups. When I tried to tar my
> /home directory onto the Zip drive it stopped after using only one block.
> Consequently there was not enough space to archive the whole directory
> ..
> Is there a way to combine some blocks on the Zip disk  to accomodate the
> archiving I wish to do?
> 
> Michael Coady

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