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Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!pacbell.com!unet!blunt!dsilvia From: dsilvia@blunt.net.com (Dave Silvia) Subject: gnu tar multi-volume with floppies Message-ID: <1993Apr5.234207.7313@unet.net.com> Sender: news@unet.net.com Nntp-Posting-Host: blunt Organization: Network Equipment Technologies Date: Mon, 5 Apr 1993 23:42:07 GMT Lines: 21 I've succeeded in creating multi-volume tar floppies, but the extraction only reads the first floppy. Here's the scenario: tar -L 1440 -cvMzf /dev/rfd1a <dir> This works just fine and prompts for the next volume. But on the extract: tar -M -xvzf /dev/rfd1a /dev/rfd1a the first volume gets to the end and emits: tar: Skipping to next file header ... Then lands me back at the command line prompt. I even tried '+multi-volume' with no success. I originally added the -L 1440 to the create since I noticed the -M seemed to have no effect (I also found that the -L could not be embedded but had to be stand alone). Any clues would be appreciated! Dave S.