From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Aug 29 22:51:57 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id WAA10104 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 29 Aug 1996 22:51:57 -0700 (PDT) Received: from irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de [141.76.1.11]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id WAA10085; Thu, 29 Aug 1996 22:51:52 -0700 (PDT) Received: from sax.sax.de (sax.sax.de [193.175.26.33]) by irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with ESMTP id HAA18695; Fri, 30 Aug 1996 07:51:49 +0200 Received: (from uucp@localhost) by sax.sax.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id HAA28074; Fri, 30 Aug 1996 07:51:49 +0200 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.7.5/8.6.9) id HAA27769; Fri, 30 Aug 1996 07:40:59 +0200 (MET DST) From: J Wunsch Message-Id: <199608300540.HAA27769@uriah.heep.sax.de> Subject: Re: [Q]: formula for calculating BPI needed To: jmb@freefall.freebsd.org (Jonathan M. Bresler) Date: Fri, 30 Aug 1996 07:40:59 +0200 (MET DST) Cc: moos@degnet.baynet.de, questions@FreeBSD.org, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) In-Reply-To: <199608290016.RAA15559@freefall.freebsd.org> from "Jonathan M. Bresler" at "Aug 28, 96 05:16:52 pm" X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL17 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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 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 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. ;-)