Re: dump truncation

2019-12-03 Thread Otto Moerbeek
On Tue, Dec 03, 2019 at 11:03:22AM +0100, Jan Stary wrote: > This is current/amd64. > > It seems 'dump -f file' does not truncate the output file > when it starts writing it. Is that on purpose? > Is that a relict of the tape days? > > Jan > Yes. -Otto

dump truncation

2019-12-03 Thread Jan Stary
This is current/amd64. It seems 'dump -f file' does not truncate the output file when it starts writing it. Is that on purpose? Is that a relict of the tape days? Jan