On Friday 19 August 2005 12:00 pm, Edd Barrett wrote: > > As others have pointed out, use a tarball on a vfat filesystem. You might > > want to doublecheck the capabilities of the various tar utilties, and > > perhaps use gtar > > (GNU Tar) on both ends. > > I dont have enough cash to buy another disk and I know there will not > be space on the disk to tar up. (I iterate) The disk will be in active > use. > > vfat sounds best.
Edd, although this just sounds like you are asking for trouble, I found a link for ext2 support for Solaris 9. Good luck. http://paulf.free.fr/software.html Tim Donahue