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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!msunews!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!news.sprintlink.net!news.chattanooga.net!tarush!tom From: tom@tarush.chattanooga.net (Tom Rush) Subject: tar -M broken? X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Organization: Rush Co. Message-ID: <DEuIBx.Bwx@tarush.chattanooga.net> Date: Wed, 13 Sep 1995 13:19:09 GMT Lines: 20 I am not fortunate enough to own a tape drive, so if I want to archive anything at all, I have to do it on floppies. A long time ago (when I used the "other" free *nix), I found the multi-volume capabilities of GNU tar quite useful. However, I have not been able to get the FreeBSD version of tar to create a multi-volume archive. If I use "tar -cvMf /dev/fd0.1440 <dirname>" it fills up the floppy with however many files will fit; then it just displays all the other file names in turn and finishes without ever prompting for another disk. If then try to extract from that same disk, it works properly, i.e. reads to the end, then prompts for disk 2 (which, of course, I don't have!). I read the man page and even tried the '-F' option, but no luck. Am I missing something here, or is this as broken as it seems to be? Thanks.. -- Tom Rush tom@tarush.chattanooga.net