Date: Tue, 5 Aug 1997 19:42:08 -0500 (CDT) From: "Paul T. Root" <proot@horton.iaces.com> To: benedict@echonyc.com (Snob Art Genre) Cc: questions@freebsd.org (Questions FreeBSD) Subject: Re: tape drive reduxg Message-ID: <199708060042.TAA27867@horton.iaces.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.3.96.970805194843.13970A-100000@echonyc.com> from Snob Art Genre at "Aug 5, 97 07:49:11 pm"
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In a previous message, Snob Art Genre said:
> On Mon, 4 Aug 1997, Paul T. Root wrote:
>
> > I'm not sure, I use 126 for b, for historical reasons. I.e. I don't remember
> > why. :-) As far as B, a really big number is usually suffient. If not, didn't
> > I see someone else answer the question to use -a instead. With it, dump will
> > detect the end of the tape.
>
> narcissus:{/home/ben}% dump 0ufB65536 /dev/sd0f /dev/rst0
> bad 'B' (number of blocks per file) value "/dev/rst0"
> narcissus:{/home/ben}% dump 0ufB 65536 /dev/sd0f /dev/rst0
> bad 'B' (number of blocks per file) value "/dev/sd0f"
> narcissus:{/home/ben}% dump 0uf B 65536 /dev/sd0f /dev/rst0
> Unknown arguments to dump: /dev/sd0f /dev/rst0
> narcissus:{/home/ben}% dump B65536 0uf /dev/sd0f /dev/rst0
> bad 'B' (number of blocks per file) value "0uf"
> narcissus:{/home/ben}% dump "B65536" 0uf /dev/sd0f /dev/rst0
> bad 'B' (number of blocks per file) value "0uf"
>
> What am I doing wrong here?
>
>
I think that f wants its option right behind it.
dump -0uf /dev/rst0 -B 65536 /dev/sd0f
is what you want
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