From owner-freebsd-current Fri Aug 23 23:51:48 1996 Return-Path: owner-current Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id XAA10115 for current-outgoing; Fri, 23 Aug 1996 23:51:48 -0700 (PDT) Received: from irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de [141.76.1.11]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id XAA10094 for ; Fri, 23 Aug 1996 23:51:44 -0700 (PDT) Received: from sax.sax.de (sax.sax.de [193.175.26.33]) by irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with ESMTP id IAA15085; Sat, 24 Aug 1996 08:51:37 +0200 Received: (from uucp@localhost) by sax.sax.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id IAA15712; Sat, 24 Aug 1996 08:51:37 +0200 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.7.5/8.6.9) id IAA09124; Sat, 24 Aug 1996 08:50:05 +0200 (MET DST) From: J Wunsch Message-Id: <199608240650.IAA09124@uriah.heep.sax.de> Subject: Re: Help on block size in tar To: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org (FreeBSD-current users) Date: Sat, 24 Aug 1996 08:50:05 +0200 (MET DST) Cc: akyol@wireless.Stanford.EDU Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) In-Reply-To: <321E5933.102F11D5@whistle.com> from Julian Elischer at "Aug 23, 96 06:21:55 pm" X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL17 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-current@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk As Julian Elischer wrote: > > What is the default blocksize of tar on FreeBSD, I have made a tape > > on a freebsd system and now cannot read it on a linux system. > it may be more complicated... > it might be teh TAPE DRIVE complaining... Anyway, i think the default blocksize is only 512 bytes. This should also pass any variable-length driver. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)