From: Martin Junius (mj@dfv.rwth-aachen.de)
Date: 06/22/92


From: mj@dfv.rwth-aachen.de (Martin Junius)
Subject: Re: Linux file systems ?
Date: 22 Jun 1992 08:45:17 GMT

wilker@descartes (Clarence Wilkerson) writes:

>I have a utility from my minix days that inteprets a unix
>file or a msdos file as a minix file system, and gives a
>directory listing, etc. It seemed to work on the
>root.096a disk from aachen.de, but not on base-1, etc.
>What are those files? From the sizes I thought they must
>be disk images, but my "mls" complains that they are not
>valid minix file systems.

The base-1 thru base-5 images are parts of a multi-vol tar
archive, you can list the contents with

    tar tvfM /dev/at0

Martin

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