Date: Tue, 25 May 2004 01:54:14 +0200 From: Joan Picanyol i Puig <lists-gmane@biaix.org> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: dump to a samba mounted FAT32 disk can't handle bigfiles? Message-ID: <pan.2004.05.24.23.54.14.844774@biaix.org> References: <200405242153.i4OLrQv08309@thunder.trej.net>
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On Tue, 25 May 2004 00:53:26 +0200, Joachim Dagerot wrote:
> The man page for dump states this:
>
> [....]
> -B records
> The number of kilobytes per output volume, except that if it is not an
> integer multiple of the output block size, the command uses the next
> smaller such multiple. This option overrides the calculation of tape
> size based on length and density.
> [....]
>
> So I thougth this line should create a bunch of 35mb files. But it did
> not. Any thouts on this?
>
>>dump -0 -L -a -B 35000 -f /HEMMET2/External_HD/freebsd_usr.dump
> /dev/ad0s1f
It also states:
-a ``auto-size''. Bypass all tape length considerations, and
enforce writing until an end-of-media indication is returned.
This fits best for most modern tape drives. Use of this option
is particularly recommended when appending to an existing tape,
or using a tape drive with hardware compression (where you can
never be sure about the compression ratio).
So I'd try without the -a ;)
qvb
--
pica
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