From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Oct 12 12:42: 7 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from probity.mcc.ac.uk (probity.mcc.ac.uk [130.88.200.94]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0CD1A37B502 for ; Thu, 12 Oct 2000 12:42:05 -0700 (PDT) Received: from dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org ([130.88.200.97]) by probity.mcc.ac.uk with esmtp (Exim 2.05 #4) id 13joEu-000JlV-00 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Thu, 12 Oct 2000 20:42:04 +0100 Received: (from jcm@localhost) by dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) id UAA45032 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Thu, 12 Oct 2000 20:42:04 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from jcm) Date: Thu, 12 Oct 2000 20:42:03 +0100 From: j mckitrick To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: tar to file or tar to device ? Message-ID: <20001012204203.A45010@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0.1i Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG IIUC, tar to a device, in my case /mnt/zip, treats the whole disk like a big tar file, not allowing any other use, correct? Then you use the tar command to list, access, and modify the archive. While tar to a file on that device allows other files to be stored there as well, correct? Is there any advantage to one approach over the other? jcm -- "I drank WHAT ?!" - Socrates To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message