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 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.
This is one reason I use zip for all files I put on FAT disks,
even if they're already compressed. Just typing unzip -t /floppy/*
is enough to test them all, and you can even recover information
if the zipfiles break. Other reasons are, of course, preservation
of long filenames and meta information as with .t{ar,gz} files.
Cheers,
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