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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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