Re: [newbie] tar CD
On Fri, 17 Oct 2003 10:51:00 +0100 Tony S. Sykes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Michael, This depends on how you want to use the tar files. You can tar and then use split. Tony. -Original Message- From: Michael Adams [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, October 17, 2003 10:29 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] tar CD Does anyone have a one liner that will tar.bz to CD sized volumes. TIA -- Michael I was of the impression that tar would do volumes itself with the -M option. I am just too slow to work out how to impliment the volume size part. -- Michael Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] tar CD
Does anyone have a one liner that will tar.bz to CD sized volumes. TIA -- Michael Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] tar CD
Michael, This depends on how you want to use the tar files. You can tar and then use split. Tony. -Original Message- From: Michael Adams [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, October 17, 2003 10:29 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] tar CD Does anyone have a one liner that will tar.bz to CD sized volumes. TIA -- Michael Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] tar CD
You can make one big archive and then use the split command(split -b 700m filename). You can then use cat to put them back together. Michael Adams wrote: Does anyone have a one liner that will tar.bz to CD sized volumes. TIA Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] tar CD
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 20 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 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
