Date: Fri, 08 Jan 1999 05:03:08 +1000 From: Greg Black <gjb@acm.org> To: "Aaron D. Gifford" <adg@infowest.com> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Why won\'t TAR cooperate\? Message-ID: <19990107190309.446.qmail@alice.gba.oz.au> In-Reply-To: <199901070249.TAA02192@infowest.com> of Wed, 06 Jan 1999 19:49:49 MST References: <199901070249.TAA02192@infowest.com>
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> That said, could this be a case of tar for some reason thinking the
> tape was full? How would I find out if this is the case? How would I
> tell tar that the tape's capacity is MUCH greater than the 250MB by
> a factor of 100 or more?
Try it with dd to ensure that you can read the file and write
the whole thing to the tape:
dd if=big_file obs=64k of=/dev/tape_device
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Greg Black <gjb@acm.org>
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