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From: art@dinorah.wustl.edu (Arthur B. Smith)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix
Subject: Re: dump and the tk50
Summary: dump doesn't care
Message-ID: <1044@dinorah.wustl.edu>
Date: 4 Dec 89 19:40:29 GMT
References: <9971@june.cs.washington.edu> <82@e2big.dec.com> <10005@june.cs.washington.edu>
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In article <10005@june.cs.washington.edu>, richk@cs.washington.edu (Richard Korry) writes:
> In article <82@e2big.dec.com> zemon@e2big.dec.com (Art Zemon    SwsE/ACES) writes:
> >Try making your life much easier.  Type "/etc/dump 9u {filesystem}"
> >and be done with it.  Dump will use an ioctl to determine the
> >density and type of tape.
> 
> In the interest of making my life easier I tried this and got:
>   [... Summary of wrong responses omittedi ...]
> 131Mb unformatted. If the answer is "dump is brain dead, ignore it." fine
> with me, I just don't want to run off the end of the tape or not use half
> the tape 'cause dump don't know whats what.

Don't sweat it.  Dump (at least as provided with Ultrix 2.2 through 3.1)
doesn't give a hoot about the predicted number of tapes.  I never 
did set it, and always just remembered that one tape was about 
1 1/2 nominal tapes. I would regularly get estimates of 1.3 tapes 
(or so) and have it all fit on one tape.

    art smith    (art@dinorah.wustl.edu  or  ...!uunet!wucs1!dinorah!art)

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