From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon May 24 16:54:34 2004 Return-Path: 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 6D3CA16A4CE for ; Mon, 24 May 2004 16:54:34 -0700 (PDT) Received: from main.gmane.org (main.gmane.org [80.91.224.249]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CEE1443D48 for ; Mon, 24 May 2004 16:54:33 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from freebsd-questions@m.gmane.org) Received: from list by main.gmane.org with local (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1BSPGu-0000UL-00 for ; Tue, 25 May 2004 01:54:20 +0200 Received: from 86.red-213-97-212.pooles.rima-tde.net ([213.97.212.86]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 25 May 2004 01:54:20 +0200 Received: from lists-gmane by 86.red-213-97-212.pooles.rima-tde.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 25 May 2004 01:54:20 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org From: Joan Picanyol i Puig Date: Tue, 25 May 2004 01:54:14 +0200 Lines: 31 Message-ID: References: <200405242153.i4OLrQv08309@thunder.trej.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 86.red-213-97-212.pooles.rima-tde.net Sender: news Subject: Re: dump to a samba mounted FAT32 disk can't handle bigfiles? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 24 May 2004 23:54:34 -0000 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