On 2013-08-18 19:28 (GMT+0200) Joerg Schilling composed:
Felix Miata wrote:
1-I loath situations that necessitate use of sticks for large files. I own few, and use them only when other options are unavailable.
If you care about large files, why don't you use FAT + star?
FAT: not robust star: not installed
star is able to reliably split things into a multi volume archive... just use a volume size < 4 GB for FAT.
Media file management is trouble enough without arbitrarily splitting files to keep maximum under an arbitrary size.
Ext* is only a good choice in case you never like to use anything besides Linux.
Hence why I reformatted the FAT stick NTFS instead of EXT2. I never like to use Windows. I boot it only briefly out of occasional necessity, or for fixing corrupted ones. Most NTFS usage here is from a non-FOSS STB.
If you are on Linux, it is most unlikely that you did ever use "tar" but rather typically gtar.
v1.00 2008.04.24-06 I must deal with has no star, no gtar).
AZBox $ gtar -sh: gtar: command not found $ tar BusyBox v1.00 (2008.04.24-06:54+0000) multi-call binary Usage: tar -[czjxtvO] [-f TARFILE] [-C DIR] [FILE(s)] ......
If you care about timestamps, did you ever think about star?
AZBox $ star -sh: star: command not found My AZBox has no ?tar anywhere on it that MC can find.
Star runs everywhere (even inside my Android phone), so I cannot think about a scenario where you cannot use it.
Even on this 11.4 system: # star If 'star' is not a typo you can use command-not-found to lookup the package that contains it, like this: cnf star # gtar If 'gtar' is not a typo you can use command-not-found to lookup the package that contains it, like this: cnf gtar # zypper se -s tar | egrep 'star|gtar' | egrep -v 'tart|tars|tarl|dict' | gcstar | package | 1.6.1-4.1 | noarch | OSS | star | package | 1.5final-46.1 | i586 | OSS I don't recall ever anyone in an AZBox context mentioning the possibility of gtar or star. Neither how to build software for sigma/mips, not that it would matter, since I'm not a programmer, or a builder, even using a build service. I have more than enough trouble learning how to use what others have built and provided. -- "The wise are known for their understanding, and pleasant words are persuasive." Proverbs 16:21 (New Living Translation) Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409 ** a11y rocks! Felix Miata *** http://fm.no-ip.com/ -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-factory+owner@opensuse.org