From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Chuck Gelm Subject: Re: tar for "full" floppy backup? Date: Fri, 06 Dec 2002 18:35:41 -0500 Sender: linux-newbie-owner@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: <3DF1344D.C82F5DB9@gelm.net> References: <200212062144.OAA17052@cu.imt.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: linux-newbie@vger.kernel.org Cc: dashielljt Howdy, dashielljt: I was thinking along the same lines. I am only familiar with the last option being 'f'. Yet I noticed that the 'b' command needs an operator too. Perhaps the operators are appended in the same order they are requested by the options. 'f' filename.ext or /dev/* 'b' block size 'k' ? i.e. tar cvfbk /dev/fd0 1440 4 / \\\ \\k = 4 \b = 1440 f = /dev/fd0 ? HTH, Chuck dashielljt wrote: > > maybe tar cvbkf /dev ... will work. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-newbie" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.linux-learn.org/faqs