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[ILUG] Tar Size.

[ILUG] Tar Size.

Liam Bedford lbedford at wbtsystems.com
Fri Jun 30 10:51:06 IST 2000


On Fri, Jun 30, 2000 at 10:47:18AM +0100, Jason A. Corcoran. came forth with:
> Hi there.
> 
> Is there any way to specify a gzip or tar size.
> Let me explain. I have 900 Mb of MP3's and over 9
> 100 MB zip disks. In windows I would do a pkzip
> and span disks, how do I do this under Linux?
make the tar file, and use the split command. Or tar
to the raw zip device (/dev/hdd4 or whatever) and it
should ask you to change tapes/devices..

L.
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