Re: mount problem (urgent!!)

[Kevin Colby <kevinc grainsystems com>]

Tom's response is certainly correct.  Just for some explaination...

'tar' (which I believe even stood for "Tape ARchive") does not write
a "filesystem" in the conventional sense.  It writes only in one long
stream (for tapes).  Thus, a tarred backup is only read by tar.  You
simply don't mount it.

You could also have formatted the floppy with a filesystem and
mounted it, but then you would've been using 'cp', not 'tar'.
I hope that clears things up.

	- Kevin Colby
	  kevinc grainsystems com


Tom Cooper wrote:
> Mark Lo wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >           I did backup some of the major programs using tar to floppy
> > disk.  I won't be able to mount the floppy disk.
> > So that I am not able to recovery my programs.  I have tried to use
> > various system platform like vat, msdos, sysv...etc.  but still
> > unsuccessful..
> 
> try:
> tar -tvf /dev/fd0
> 
> > I got the following error messages..  Wong fs type, bad block, or too
> > many mounted file system...etc.   Any information is helpful.
> Does the floppy have a file system on it?
> Did you format the floppy and then create a file like backupfiles.tar?
> 
> My guess is that the command above will let you see that the files exist
> on the floppy.
> 
> Hope this helps.....
> 
> Regards,
> Tom Cooper
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