From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Sep 10 10:09:00 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id KAA06536 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Thu, 10 Sep 1998 10:09:00 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from dan.emsphone.com (dan.emsphone.com [199.67.51.101]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id KAA06525 for ; Thu, 10 Sep 1998 10:08:56 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dan@dan.emsphone.com) Received: (from dan@localhost) by dan.emsphone.com (8.9.1/8.9.1) id MAA22369; Thu, 10 Sep 1998 12:08:24 -0500 (CDT) Message-ID: <19980910120824.A22026@emsphone.com> Date: Thu, 10 Sep 1998 12:08:24 -0500 From: Dan Nelson To: Forrest Aldrich , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Tape drive and DUMP References: <199809101505.LAA08210@spook.navinet.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.94.2i In-Reply-To: <199809101505.LAA08210@spook.navinet.net>; from "Forrest Aldrich" on Thu Sep 10 10:55:37 GMT 1998 X-OS: FreeBSD 2.2.7-STABLE Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In the last episode (Sep 10), Forrest Aldrich said: > > I'm having a bit of difficulty trying to get a decent system dump on tape > with FreeBSD-2.2.7-STABLE. > > Using the same tapes that I use in my Solaris system, I perform: > > /sbin/dump 0uf /dev/rst0 /usr/local > > But for some reason, it thinks the tape is very small. I have > 4.0gig-capable tapes. I've > tried specifying the tape length (feet) and that doesn't make a difference. > Dump will indicate > something like 49.x tapes required for the dump of /usr/local which is less > than 2gig :) The 'a' dump option will tell dump not to use a hardcoded tape length, and just stop when EOM is reached. -Dan Nelson dnelson@emsphone.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message