$ mkdosfs /dev/fd0
is only part of the story. Presumably working on preformatted or prepped
disks?
Yep - presumably the disk has already been (fd) formatted. But most
floppy disks purchased these days have already been formatted.
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March 2003 8:25 AM
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Subject: Re: [newbie] tar questions, ta
Greg Meyer wrote:
On Sunday 02 March 2003 02:16 pm, Michael Adams wrote:
What number of 1k blocks will fit on a 1.44Mb DOS floppy?
An empty dos-formatted floppy has 1,457,664 bytes free -
which if my calculator
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
On Mon, 03 Mar 2003 12:21, Stephen Kuhn wrote:
On Mon, 2003-03-03 at 06:16, Michael Adams wrote:
1. I backed up an old system and i made the mistake of using absolute
paths. I now want to extract from this tar ball into my newer system. I
want to extract individual files and want to place
David E. Fox wrote:
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
better yet, why not just as it is, a device.?
better yet, why not use
Michael Adams wrote:
My impression was it was a 2Mb RAW disk and when the filesystem (DOS) is
written to it. 1.44MB remains.
this is where you need to start looking at your system hardware
as devices, not names associated with description or function.
capacity becomes what it is, not 1m44 that
Michael Adams wrote:
Yeah, me too, but konq won't see .hiddenfiles in a tar.
it will if you enable.
.directories, do not show in tree structure.
or so i have not found in x setup. i would
venture that it could be from source mod.
peace out.
tc,hago.
g
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Stephen Kuhn wrote:
I like using the facilities within Konqueror as a file manager for
handling TAR/GZ files - then I can just drag/drop files where I want
them - irregardless of paths.
admit it, you are just lazy.
but then again, who am i to talk about lazy?
i never registered or updated
On Mon, 2003-03-03 at 19:49, Michael Adams wrote:
On Mon, 03 Mar 2003 12:21, Stephen Kuhn wrote:
On Mon, 2003-03-03 at 06:16, Michael Adams wrote:
1. I backed up an old system and i made the mistake of using absolute
paths. I now want to extract from this tar ball into my newer system. I
On Mon, 2003-03-03 at 20:13, g wrote:
Michael Adams wrote:
Yeah, me too, but konq won't see .hiddenfiles in a tar.
it will if you enable.
.directories, do not show in tree structure.
or so i have not found in x setup. i would
venture that it could be from source mod.
Either I'm
better yet, why not just as it is, a device.?
I thought that's what i did :). I was tarring directly to /dev/fd0.
better yet, why not use cpio?
Why not? My feeling is that tar is a lot easier, and probably a lot
more portable. I look at the cpio man page and there are all sorts
of different
My impression was it was a 2Mb RAW disk and when the filesystem (DOS) is
written to it. 1.44MB remains.
AFAIK, the 2mb capacity is 'unformatted' and 'formmatted' means that
the drive is low-level prepped for use, timing tracks and so forth
have been written. At that point it's a 1.44 meg
On Sunday 02 March 2003 02:16 pm, Michael Adams 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.)
1440 I guess
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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
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