From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Oct 13 3:50:45 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from serenity.mcc.ac.uk (serenity.mcc.ac.uk [130.88.200.93]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E524A37B66D for ; Fri, 13 Oct 2000 03:50:42 -0700 (PDT) Received: from dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org ([130.88.200.97]) by serenity.mcc.ac.uk with esmtp (Exim 2.05 #4) id 13k2QD-000083-00; Fri, 13 Oct 2000 11:50:41 +0100 Received: (from jcm@localhost) by dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) id LAA51442; Fri, 13 Oct 2000 11:50:36 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from jcm) Date: Fri, 13 Oct 2000 11:50:36 +0100 From: j mckitrick To: Tony Landells Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: tar to file or tar to device ? Message-ID: <20001013115036.A51415@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> References: <200010122242.JAA20459@tungsten.austclear.com.au> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0.1i In-Reply-To: <200010122242.JAA20459@tungsten.austclear.com.au>; from ahl@austclear.com.au on Fri, Oct 13, 2000 at 09:42:20AM +1100 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri, Oct 13, 2000 at 09:42:20AM +1100, Tony Landells wrote: | > 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? | | If you really mean /mnt/zip, then you probably have the disk mounted, in | which case you're writing to a file on the device. If you tar to /mnt/zip, what would the filename be? jcm -- "I drank WHAT ?!" - Socrates To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message