From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jan 7 11:03:47 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id LAA21769 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Thu, 7 Jan 1999 11:03:47 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from alice.gba.oz.au (gba-254.tmx.com.au [203.9.155.254]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id LAA21762 for ; Thu, 7 Jan 1999 11:03:42 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from gjb@acm.org) Received: (qmail 447 invoked by uid 1001); 7 Jan 1999 19:03:09 -0000 Message-ID: <19990107190309.446.qmail@alice.gba.oz.au> X-Posted-By: GBA-Post 1.03 20-Sep-1998 X-PGP-Fingerprint: 5A91 6942 8CEA 9DAB B95B C249 1CE1 493B 2B5A CE30 Date: Fri, 08 Jan 1999 05:03:08 +1000 From: Greg Black To: "Aaron D. Gifford" Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Why won\'t TAR cooperate\? References: <199901070249.TAA02192@infowest.com> In-reply-to: <199901070249.TAA02192@infowest.com> of Wed, 06 Jan 1999 19:49:49 MST Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > 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 -- Greg Black To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message