Date: Fri, 30 Aug 1996 07:40:59 +0200 (MET DST) From: J Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de> To: jmb@freefall.freebsd.org (Jonathan M. Bresler) Cc: moos@degnet.baynet.de, questions@FreeBSD.org, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: [Q]: formula for calculating BPI needed Message-ID: <199608300540.HAA27769@uriah.heep.sax.de> In-Reply-To: <199608290016.RAA15559@freefall.freebsd.org> from "Jonathan M. Bresler" at "Aug 28, 96 05:16:52 pm"
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As Jonathan M. Bresler wrote: > trying to use bpi for a DAT tape ;) > bpi is from the days of 9-track tapes. use B and b instead. > > B -- number of dump records > b -- number of kilobytes per dump record. > > for a 2GB tape try 500000 40 > > dump Bbf 500000 40 /dev/rst0 <filesystem> Are you sure? I'm under the impression that `B' is always measured in kilobytes. This is from experience, not from the man page. :) (Btw., you've got one `0' too much anyway.) dump 0uBb 2000000 32 <filesystem> is what i'm using on DAT. -- 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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