Xref: utzoo comp.unix.questions:15606 comp.unix.wizards:17619 Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!csd4.milw.wisc.edu!mrsvr.UUCP From: starr@mrsvr.UUCP (Larry Starr,Mezzanine,46971,5638828) Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions,comp.unix.wizards Subject: Re: 8mm tape length for dump Message-ID: <875@mrsvr.UUCP> Date: 11 Aug 89 13:11:06 GMT References: <412@h.cs.wvu.wvnet.edu> Sender: news@mrsvr.UUCP Followup-To: comp.unix.questions Lines: 18 From article <412@h.cs.wvu.wvnet.edu>, by fuhrman@b.coe.wvu.wvnet.edu (Cris Fuhrman): > Can anyone tell me what the length for an 8mm tape drive is > while using dump in SUN OS 3.5? I believe that what you are after is not the physical length of the tape but a logical length. What we are using for dump, with an 8mm Exabyte (2.2G tape) is: dump ds 6250 28633 Add other flags as necessary and, of course, specify your file system, tape drive, etc. This allows dump to calculate a capacity of 2G bytes for the tape, I rounded down to play it safe. Your mileage may vary.