On Mon, 24 May 2004, Joachim Dagerot wrote: > The man page for dump states this: > > [....] > -B records > The number of kilobytes per output volume, except that if it is not an > integer multiple of the output block size, the command uses the next > smaller such multiple. This option overrides the calculation of tape > size based on length and density. > [....] > > So I thougth this line should create a bunch of 35mb files. But it did > not. Any thouts on this? > > >dump -0 -L -a -B 35000 -f /HEMMET2/External_HD/freebsd_usr.dump > /dev/ad0s1f
A little farther down, the -f option says: "Multiple file names may be given as a single argument separated by commas. Each file will be used for one dump volume in the order listed; if the dump requires more volumes than the number of names given, the last file name will used for all remaining volumes after prompting for media changes." I don't know if there's a way to make dump automatically name or number a bunch of output files, but you can give it a list of filenames if you have an idea of how many it will need. -Warren Block * Rapid City, South Dakota USA _______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"