bothe@net4.UUCP (08/01/89)
In a manual of GIGATAPE i found: /etc/dump 0cbdsf 20 12000 17550 /dev/rmt1hn $* It works, but what means the char c? (I have no ucb doc!) |\ | | | ) | | |< _ _|_ |/~\ /~\ | ) | | | | | (___) |/ |_| \_ | | \__ Richard Bothe NIXDORF COMPUTER AG Dep DTSW 2-4 Berliner Str. 95 D-8000 Munic (West Germany) Tel.: (nat-89)3601-2956 eunet: bothe.muc@nixpbe.UUCP !USA: mcvax!unido!nixpbe!bothe.muc USA: uunet!linus!nixbur!bothe.muc
sandel@TUVALU.SW.MCC.COM (Charles Sandel) (08/03/89)
The 'c' in the dump(8) command is used to specify cartridge tape. If 'c' is specified: 1. if no density is specified, dump(8) uses 1000 2. if no length is specified, dump(8) uses 1700 feet 3. number of tapes estimated is based on the assumption that streaming stops at the end of each block Since you can specify the length and density separately, the 'c' option is mostly useful for its "knowledge" of streaming cartridge tapes, and its use of that in estimating the number of tapes required, and how much tape has been used so that dump(8) can request a tape change before end-of-tape. Charles