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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!news.uoknor.edu!news.nodak.edu!netnews3.nwnet.net!netnews.nwnet.net!news.u.washington.edu!uw-beaver!uhog.mit.edu!bloom-beacon.mit.edu!spool.mu.edu!newshub.tc.umn.edu!fu-berlin.de!irz401!orion.sax.de!uriah.heep!news From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: tar on floppy Date: 7 Aug 1996 22:04:01 GMT Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden Lines: 12 Message-ID: <4ub3sh$dev@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <320057E5.22C5@bmgsk.ada.at> <32009B1D.167EB0E7@eramp.net> <32022AB9.4797@alaska.net> Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.heep.sax.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.6 X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E hmmm <hmmm@alaska.net> wrote: > could it be that your floppy has a 800k worth of filesystem on it? tar would happily destroy it without a whisper. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)