From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Chuck Gelm Subject: Re: tar for "full" floppy backup? Date: Sat, 07 Dec 2002 15:03:07 -0500 Sender: linux-newbie-owner@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: <3DF253FB.FCE749BE@gelm.net> References: <3DF305BD.3BA2C910@ihug.co.nz> 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 I did tar -cyvf /boot /dev/fd0 and /mnt# tar -xyvf /dev/fd0 and it created /mnt/boot/ and all the files from /boot appeared in /mnt/boot Next I tried tar -cvMf /dev/fd0 /etc and after some floppy action, I was prompted: "Prepare volume #2 for /dev/fd0 and hit return:" I'd recommend running 'badblocks' on the diskettes and using only those that report 0 bad blocks. ;-) tar --version tar (GNU tar) 1.13 ... HTH, Chuck - 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