From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Feb 27 15:12:33 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id PAA20326 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Fri, 27 Feb 1998 15:12:33 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id PAA20286 for ; Fri, 27 Feb 1998 15:12:13 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.7/8.8.8) with SMTP id PAA11098; Fri, 27 Feb 1998 15:12:03 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Date: Fri, 27 Feb 1998 15:12:03 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White Reply-To: Doug White To: Angel Behar Rodriguez cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Compression on dump. In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri, 27 Feb 1998, Angel Behar Rodriguez wrote: > > Im running 2.1.7.1 with an SCSI HP 5000i BU tape. The tape drive supports > 2 GB or 4Gb with compression, my problems starts when I want to dump my > a little bit more 2Gb /usr partition but dump ask me for 41 tapes!! > Can you help me with this I supouse that I making a mistake. Thanks. You didn't specify the tape size or `a' to use the entire tape. Try this: dump 0auf /dev/rst0 /usr See `man dump' for details. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message