Date: 03 Nov 2001 12:15:52 -0800 From: swear@blarg.net (Gary W. Swearingen) To: Nils Holland <nils@tisys.org> Cc: David Kelly <dkelly@hiwaay.net>, Jim Arnold <jim@ohio.com>, Cliff Sarginson <cliff@raggedclown.net>, <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Splitting a tar archive Message-ID: <rfr8rfbog7.8rf@localhost.localdomain> In-Reply-To: <20011102232955.W1449-100000@howie.ncptiddische.net> References: <20011102232955.W1449-100000@howie.ncptiddische.net>
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Nils Holland <nils@tisys.org> writes: > On Fri, 2 Nov 2001, David Kelly wrote: > > > The problem with this method is (I've noticed) some CD drives report > > That problem (at least I guess that it's that problem) has occured here in The problem I noticed was that the data that comes off the CD is a bit bigger than the HD file it originated from. Tests showed no diff between them if you ignore the extra stuff at the end of the CD data. Creative use of "dd" (or maybe "cut") should help. For untarring from multiple CD, you might need do something like this: ( dd if=/dev/cdrw bs=2k count=<whatever1> echo -n "switch CDs and press Enter" 1>&2 read XXX dd if=/dev/cdrw bs=2k count=<whatever2> ) | tar tzf - But maybe tar's multiple-volume stuff wouldn't like that either, so you'll either have to determine what it does like or write your own multi-volume stuff. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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