Re: tar block question

2008-09-16 Thread Bob McGowan
Paulo Silva wrote: I think you can cut some steps Ter, 2008-09-16 às 10:49 -0700, Bob McGowan escreveu: [...] 2. losetup -f prints the name of the next available loop device, in my case it was /dev/loop0 3. losetup /dev/loop0 /path/to/filename 4. losetup /dev/loop0

Re: tar block question

2008-09-16 Thread Paulo Silva
I think you can cut some steps Ter, 2008-09-16 às 10:49 -0700, Bob McGowan escreveu: [...] >2. losetup -f >prints the name of the next available loop device, in my case it >was /dev/loop0 > >3. losetup /dev/loop0 /path/to/filename > >4. losetup /dev/loop0 >

Re: tar block question

2008-09-16 Thread Bob McGowan
Ron Johnson wrote: On 09/16/08 12:21, Bob McGowan wrote: Bob McGowan wrote: Mike McCarty wrote: David Fox wrote: On Sun, Sep 14, 2008 at 1:16 PM, Mag Gam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: --- deleted tar/cpio disucssion -> But perhaps an iso or other disk image format would work better? The

Re: tar block question

2008-09-16 Thread Bob McGowan
Bob McGowan wrote: Bob McGowan wrote: Mike McCarty wrote: David Fox wrote: On Sun, Sep 14, 2008 at 1:16 PM, Mag Gam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: --- deleted tar/cpio disucssion -> But perhaps an iso or other disk image format would work better? The file would be mounted using to loop d

Re: tar block question

2008-09-16 Thread Ron Johnson
On 09/16/08 12:21, Bob McGowan wrote: Bob McGowan wrote: Mike McCarty wrote: David Fox wrote: On Sun, Sep 14, 2008 at 1:16 PM, Mag Gam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: --- deleted tar/cpio disucssion -> But perhaps an iso or other disk image format would work better? The file would be moun

Re: tar block question

2008-09-16 Thread Bob McGowan
Bob McGowan wrote: Mike McCarty wrote: David Fox wrote: On Sun, Sep 14, 2008 at 1:16 PM, Mag Gam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: --- deleted tar/cpio disucssion -> But perhaps an iso or other disk image format would work better? The file would be mounted using to loop device, updated with

Re: tar block question

2008-09-16 Thread Bob McGowan
Mike McCarty wrote: David Fox wrote: On Sun, Sep 14, 2008 at 1:16 PM, Mag Gam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: So, what do you recommend for such an annoyance? rsync takes a while for me. But I rather I have 1 large tar file and untar as needed. tar isn't the best tool to use for the job, especial

Re: tar block question

2008-09-16 Thread Mike McCarty
David Fox wrote: On Sun, Sep 14, 2008 at 1:16 PM, Mag Gam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: So, what do you recommend for such an annoyance? rsync takes a while for me. But I rather I have 1 large tar file and untar as needed. tar isn't the best tool to use for the job, especially if you need 1 file

tar block question

2008-09-14 Thread Mag Gam
I have to tar up many small files. I have over 30k files in a directory. What is the best way to do this? If I tar it its taking a long time but from what I have been reading if I increase my blocksize it should go faster. But I am not sure if that will work. Any thoughts? TIA -- To UNSUBSCRIBE