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  From: Adrian Butterworth <adrian@groc.econ-outlook.com.au>
  To  : linuxsa@linuxsa.org.au
  Date: Sun, 25 Apr 1999 11:17:32 +0930

Re: Backing up to & mounting fd0

Brenton
The command "tar cf /dev/fd0 ." is writing to the "device"
as a raw unformatted floppy disk like it can to a tape.

This will overwrite any existing filesystem you have on it.

to read back, you don't "mount" the disk.
it is raw tar format, not ext2, vfat or anything else mount understands so
it can't be mounted 

try "tar tf /dev/fd0 ." this should list the archives contents.

if you want to tar to a "file" on a floppy "filesystem".
 format the floppy,
 mount it (for example as /mnt/floppy),
 cd someverysmalldirectory
 "tar cf /mnt/floppy/backup.tar ."
of course you need to have enough space on the floppy to hold the contents of
the entire directory.

Adrian

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