On Wed, 18 Aug 2004, Peter Milliken wrote: > Next step is I would like to backup some very large files to DVD. I have > some video files (>13GByte) that I would like to backup across multiple DVD > discs (-R or -RW - whichever works :-)). > > Has anybody used a DVD burner as a backup mechanism and how do you work out > the device name to use with tar i.e. I found that a floppy is /dev/fd0 - > what would a DVD burner device name be? Is there a command that displays > device names?
Google for "create_devices.sh", and use the script to create a real /dev directory. Cygwin's /dev is a virtual directory, so you can't really look at it unless you have a real directory corresponding to it -- that's what the script creates. Also see <http://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/using-specialnames.html>. HTH, Igor -- http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/ |\ _,,,---,,_ [EMAIL PROTECTED] ZZZzz /,`.-'`' -. ;-;;,_ [EMAIL PROTECTED] |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' Igor Pechtchanski, Ph.D. '---''(_/--' `-'\_) fL a.k.a JaguaR-R-R-r-r-r-.-.-. Meow! "Happiness lies in being privileged to work hard for long hours in doing whatever you think is worth doing." -- Dr. Jubal Harshaw -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
