From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Jul 12 13:38:17 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4FC5E37B400 for ; Fri, 12 Jul 2002 13:38:16 -0700 (PDT) Received: from citron.chasma.net (ns2.chasma.net [63.175.99.115]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 92A4743E64 for ; Fri, 12 Jul 2002 13:38:15 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from eross_a@chasma.net) Received: (qmail 36580 invoked by uid 0); 12 Jul 2002 20:38:14 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO eross) (10.0.0.199) by ns2.chasma.net with SMTP; 12 Jul 2002 20:38:14 -0000 Message-ID: <015d01c229e4$766184e0$c700000a@corp.chasmainc.com> From: "Andrew Eross" To: Subject: tar Date: Fri, 12 Jul 2002 16:41:13 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4522.1200 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4910.0300 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hi there, When using tar to backup my system to tape .. I noticed that tar doesn't seem to report an error if it reached the end of the tape, but did not finish archiving my files ... I was expecting some sort of "out of space on tape" type error since the archive couldn't fit .. is there any way to get tar to report an error when this occurs? thanks, Andrew Eross To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message