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Date:      Fri, 08 Jan 1999 05:03:08 +1000
From:      Greg Black <gjb@acm.org>
To:        "Aaron D. Gifford" <adg@infowest.com>
Cc:        questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Why won\'t TAR cooperate\? 
Message-ID:  <19990107190309.446.qmail@alice.gba.oz.au>
In-Reply-To: <199901070249.TAA02192@infowest.com>  of Wed, 06 Jan 1999 19:49:49 MST
References:  <199901070249.TAA02192@infowest.com> 

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> That said, could this be a case of tar for some reason thinking the
> tape was full?  How would I find out if this is the case?  How would I
> tell tar that the tape's capacity is MUCH greater than the 250MB by
> a factor of 100 or more?

Try it with dd to ensure that you can read the file and write
the whole thing to the tape:

    dd if=big_file obs=64k of=/dev/tape_device

-- 
Greg Black <gjb@acm.org>


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