Date: Mon, 24 May 2004 17:56:58 -0600 (MDT) From: Warren Block <wblock@wonkity.com> To: Joachim Dagerot <freebsd@dagerot.nu> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: dump to a samba mounted FAT32 disk can't handle bigfiles? Message-ID: <20040524175426.H42235@wonkity.com> In-Reply-To: <200405242153.i4OLrQv08309@thunder.trej.net> References: <200405242153.i4OLrQv08309@thunder.trej.net>
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On Mon, 24 May 2004, 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 A little farther down, the -f option says: "Multiple file names may be given as a single argument separated by commas. Each file will be used for one dump volume in the order listed; if the dump requires more volumes than the number of names given, the last file name will used for all remaining volumes after prompting for media changes." I don't know if there's a way to make dump automatically name or number a bunch of output files, but you can give it a list of filenames if you have an idea of how many it will need. -Warren Block * Rapid City, South Dakota USA
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