Re: tar - explicit spanning

2001-02-01 Thread Joey Hess
Adam Blomberg wrote: > Essentially, I want to archive a large directory into 2.2 Gbyte tarballs > which are "spanning" in nature. I have an 18 Gbyte directory tree that I > want to compress into a set of 2.2 Gbyte archives so that I can copy the > individual tarballs onto separate DVD-RAM media la

Re: tar - explicit spanning

2001-02-01 Thread Carel Fellinger
On Tue, Jan 30, 2001 at 11:55:56PM -0600, Adam Blomberg wrote: > > Good evening, > > I'm trying to figure out how to use tar (preferrably with gzip) to create > a tarball which creates a new file when each .tar (or better yet, each > tar.gz) reaches a size of 2.2 Gbytes. ... Interesting proble

Re: tar - explicit spanning

2001-02-01 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Thu, Feb 01, 2001 at 10:04:31AM -0600, Adam Blomberg wrote: > I'm trying to figure out how to use tar (preferrably with gzip) to create > a tarball which creates a new file when each .tar (or better yet, each > tar.gz) reaches a size of 2.2 Gbytes. > > Essentially, I want to archive a large d

tar - explicit spanning

2001-02-01 Thread Adam Blomberg
First off, my apology if this post reached the list already. The subcribe process took far longer than I expected to get me onto the list, and so I fear I may have missed any replies... thats if this post actually reached the list. Good afternoon, I'm trying to figure out how to use tar (

tar - explicit spanning

2001-01-31 Thread Adam Blomberg
Good evening, I'm trying to figure out how to use tar (preferrably with gzip) to create a tarball which creates a new file when each .tar (or better yet, each tar.gz) reaches a size of 2.2 Gbytes. Essentially, I want to archive a large directory into 2.2 Gbyte tarballs which are "spanning" in