From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon May 24 16:57:21 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 ACED516A4CE for ; Mon, 24 May 2004 16:57:21 -0700 (PDT) Received: from wonkity.com (wonkity.com [65.173.111.5]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 46D1743D46 for ; Mon, 24 May 2004 16:57:21 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from wblock@wonkity.com) Received: from wonkity.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by wonkity.com (8.12.11/8.12.11) with ESMTP id i4ONuwZZ042349; Mon, 24 May 2004 17:56:58 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from wblock@wonkity.com) Received: from localhost (wblock@localhost) by wonkity.com (8.12.11/8.12.11/Submit) with ESMTP id i4ONuw5w042346; Mon, 24 May 2004 17:56:58 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from wblock@wonkity.com) Date: Mon, 24 May 2004 17:56:58 -0600 (MDT) From: Warren Block To: Joachim Dagerot In-Reply-To: <200405242153.i4OLrQv08309@thunder.trej.net> Message-ID: <20040524175426.H42235@wonkity.com> References: <200405242153.i4OLrQv08309@thunder.trej.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org 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 23:57:21 -0000 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