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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!paladin.american.edu!zombie.ncsc.mil!news.mathworks.com!newsfeed.internetmci.com!athena.cytanet.com.cy!zeus.cc.ucy.ac.cy!01-newsfeed.univie.ac.at!02-newsfeed.univie.ac.at!news.via.at!apans1.apa.at!news-admin@apanet.at From: Alexander Hausner <alexander.hausner@bmgsk.ada.at> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: tar on floppy Date: Thu, 01 Aug 1996 09:08:21 +0200 Organization: Bundesministerium für Gesundheit und Kosumentenschutz Lines: 6 Message-ID: <320057E5.22C5@bmgsk.ada.at> NNTP-Posting-Host: dialup-wien1-1.apanet.at Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.0b5aGold (WinNT; I) Hello Folks! I use tar cvf /dev/fd0 <dirname> to backup a directory on a 1.44 MB floppy, but it does not put 1.44 MB on disk, only about 1/4 or so. How can I put 1.44MB on floppy?