by Try doing:Quote:> Hi all,
> today I have detected an unexpected behaviour of cpio in Solaris 2.6.
> I tried to create a cpio archive on a nearly full filesystem using:
> cat <file list> | cpio cpio -oc -O <name of archive>
> During this command the was full and cpio ask:
> End of medium on "output".
> Change to part 2 and press RETURN key. [q]
> Regards
> Roland Titze
ls <file list> | cpio -ocv > <name of archive or device>
this will work better.
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