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RE: can not create a multi-volume archive using tar


> From: a1111111
> Sent: Friday, July 09, 2004 6:56 PM

> Sometime  I need to move data between unix machines and win2k. I know,
> that cygwin can use raw drives, so 'tar -cvf /dev/fd0' can do a work for
> me. But this command does not work correctly with files which is bigger
> then 1.4MB -- it can not write data to diskettes as multivolume.
> Did anybody try that multi-volume archives?
>
> Al.

FWIW, there is several ways around such a problem.

1) Create a plain tar archive,
   (unless you can get the multivolume stuff going - creating a splitted
     archive on a spare partition)
2) 'split' the archive
3) 'dd' (or anything e.g. 'cdrecord') the pieces onto any media.

but you might want to fight with tar... ;-)

/Hannu E K Nevalainen, B.Sc. EE - 59+16.37'N, 17+12.60'E             --76-->

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