On Friday 07 January 2005 13:20, Brian Cuttler wrote: >Gene, > >> Humm, are you saying that amlabel works and can read the label >> written, but that dd doesn't/cannot? Back to 'man dd' as it >> exists on that Irix system would be my next suggestion. > >Remembering that I'd set the blocksize on the device and relabeled >yesterday I tried this. > >samar 160# mt -f /dev/sdlt2 rewind >samar 161# dd of=/dev/sdlt2 bs=32k if=./scratch >1+0 records in >1+0 records out > >Which worked fine. > And got you how big a scratch file?
>I then tried to re-write the label with dd > >samar 170# dd of=/dev/sdlt2 obs=32k if=./scratch >64+0 records in >1+0 records out > And were you then able to reread it ok? To me, theres something a bit odd about dd telling you it wrote 64 input records to one output record. OTOH, I haven't fooled with dd that much recently since I'm using a big hard drive now. >"bs" block size, "obs" outpub BS, (there is an IBS also, which I >am afraid of developing should this not resolve soon) > >Actually the xfsrestore file is a link to the executable in the > /usr/sbin directory. It does make sense, after a fashion (why not a > link for the xfsdump executable as well). > >> >samar 126# which xfsrestore >> >/sbin/xfsrestore >> >samar 127# which xfsdump >> >/usr/sbin/xfsdump > >I'm now going to attempt to run amdump with a much shorter disklist >and see if I can't get a rational result on this tape. > >--- > Brian R Cuttler [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Computer Systems Support (v) 518 486-1697 > Wadsworth Center (f) 518 473-6384 > NYS Department of Health Help Desk 518 473-0773 -- Cheers, Gene "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) 99.31% setiathome rank, not too shabby for a WV hillbilly Yahoo.com attorneys please note, additions to this message by Gene Heskett are: Copyright 2004 by Maurice Eugene Heskett, all rights reserved.
