Re: using FAT floppies- a drawback

1999-04-12 Thread David Wright
Quoting John Hasler ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > Pollywog writes: > > For instance, could I tar (recursively) /local/mail and copy all the > > files to a floppy with the directory structure intact? > > Yes. Just like tape. Note, however, that one bad sector will make the tar > unreadable. If you are

Re: using FAT floppies- a drawback

1999-04-12 Thread Gary L. Hennigan
Pollywog <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: | On 09-Apr-99 Gary L. Hennigan wrote: | > Pollywog <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: | >| I was going about reformatting a floppy disk I use to backup my Exim | >| filters | >| and configs and I remembered something: DOS floppies are limited to 8.3 | >| type | >| na

Re: using FAT floppies- a drawback

1999-04-11 Thread Jiri Baum
Hello, Pollywog: > I was going about reformatting a floppy disk I use to backup my Exim > filters and configs and I remembered something: DOS floppies are limited > to 8.3 type names. I believe there are some ways around this umsdos - unix filesystem on top of MS DOS - that way you'll be able t

Re: using FAT floppies- a drawback

1999-04-10 Thread Richard E. Hawkins Esq.
John Hassled, > Yes. Just like tape. Note, however, that one bad sector will make the tar > unreadable. If you are going to do this you should test the floppies and > not use any that aren't perfect. The simplest way to test floppies is to > format them. > Tarring directly to the device gets

Re: using FAT floppies- a drawback

1999-04-09 Thread John Hasler
Pollywog writes: > For instance, could I tar (recursively) /local/mail and copy all the > files to a floppy with the directory structure intact? Yes. Just like tape. Note, however, that one bad sector will make the tar unreadable. If you are going to do this you should test the floppies and not

Re: using FAT floppies- a drawback

1999-04-09 Thread Pollywog
On 09-Apr-99 Gary L. Hennigan wrote: > Pollywog <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >| I was going about reformatting a floppy disk I use to backup my Exim >| filters >| and configs and I remembered something: DOS floppies are limited to 8.3 >| type >| names. I believe there are some ways around this wh

Re: using FAT floppies- a drawback

1999-04-09 Thread Gary L. Hennigan
Pollywog <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: | I was going about reformatting a floppy disk I use to backup my Exim filters | and configs and I remembered something: DOS floppies are limited to 8.3 type | names. I believe there are some ways around this which I cannot | remember, but instead I will keep