[CentOS] How to add System V Filesystem to Centos?
William L. Maltby
BillsCentOS at triad.rr.com
Tue Feb 7 01:27:11 UTC 2006
On Mon, 2006-02-06 at 17:04 -0800, Raymond Lillard wrote:
> Mace Eliason wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I am working on a project where I have to move some parts files from an
> > old Unix server. I have tared the files to floppy disc, but I can't
> > mount them.
>
> forget the filesystem. Use the dd command. all block
> devices can also be accessed as char devices in Unix.
Don't need dd. The nature of *IX file systems is that raw file system
access is "automatic" just by requesting it.
>
> I'm assuming your files are small enough to fit on
> a single floppy?
>
>
> Write to floppy:
>
> tar czvf - <path> | dd of=/dev/rfd0xx
s/ \| dd //
Older unix systems may not have gzip/bzip and if they do, may not have
it callable from tar. Might need to use it in a pipeline.
>
> Read from floppy:
>
> cd <path>
> dd if=/dev/rfd0xx | tar xzvf -
tar -xzvf /dev/rfd0xx
>
> Note: You will need to determine the correct device
> names. I have written this off the top of my head,
> and I haven't used a floppy in quite a while.
>
> Ray
>
>
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