Re: dump truncation

[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

[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