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 which I cannot >| remember, but instead I will keep using ext2 on some floppies like this >| one. > > Do you need to read these floppies on a DOS system? If not don't even > bother formatting them, just use tar on the device itself, e.g., > > tar cvf /dev/fd0 <files>
I was not certain that I could do that. Does this mean I can tar a small directory tree and copy it to floppy using any filename I like? For instance, could I tar (recursively) /local/mail and copy all the files to a floppy with the directory structure intact? I know this can be done on tape. thanks -- Andrew [PGP5.0 Key ID 0x5EE61C37]
