Date: Sat, 21 Sep 2019 09:38:01 +0100 From: Steve O'Hara-Smith <steve@sohara.org> To: Victor Sudakov <vas@mpeks.tomsk.su> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: multi-volume archives Message-ID: <20190921093801.4638945715fe79eb6a99b36f@sohara.org> In-Reply-To: <20190921063003.GA81956@admin.sibptus.ru> References: <20190921063003.GA81956@admin.sibptus.ru>
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On Sat, 21 Sep 2019 13:30:03 +0700 Victor Sudakov <vas@mpeks.tomsk.su> wrote: > Dear Colleagues, > > Which is now the most convenient way to create multi-volume archives? To > fit an archive on a FAT32 flash drive, a volume size should not exceed > 4g. Gnu tar (in ports/packages as gtar) has support for multi-volume splitting (-M) which by default prompts for the next volume to be installed (so you could write direct to the flash drive) or can use a script to generate the next volume filename. I vaguely recall using it a long time ago. -- Steve O'Hara-Smith <steve@sohara.org>
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