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Re: [Bug-cpio] Suggestion


From: Sergey Poznyakoff
Subject: Re: [Bug-cpio] Suggestion
Date: Fri, 04 May 2012 09:05:28 +0300

Gert Bjorkner <address@hidden> ha escrit:

> Read about cpio and thought it shold work.

Nope, in this case you'd better off using tar.  It is able to create
multi-volume archives of arbitrary size[1].  To switch device names, use
the --info-script option[2].  You will find an example script in [2] as
well.

Regards,
Sergey

[1] 
http://www.gnu.org/software/tar/manual/html_node/Multi_002dVolume-Archives.html
[2] http://www.gnu.org/software/tar/manual/html_node/Blocking.html#SEC155



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