Date: Sat, 24 Aug 1996 12:16:21 +0200 (MET DST) From: J Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de> To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org (FreeBSD hackers) Cc: akyol@wireless.Stanford.EDU (Bora Akyol) Subject: Re: Help on block size in tar Message-ID: <199608241016.MAA09935@uriah.heep.sax.de> In-Reply-To: <199608240905.CAA02942@wireless.Stanford.EDU> from Bora Akyol at "Aug 24, 96 02:05:11 am"
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As Bora Akyol wrote: > Is the tar on FreeBSD different from tar on Linux in data format. No, but the drivers are. Doesn't your Linux tell you the block size? I get this when trying to read the wrong block size on FreeBSD: Aug 24 12:15:10 uriah /kernel: st0: 32768-byte record too big After this, i know which blocksize the tape is in. :) > Strange very strange! > > Bora > > ps. Both block sizes are apparently 20. You still forgot to tell us about your tape drive and tape driver setup (output of `mt status'). -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)
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