Re: tlug: Not Linux but a UNIX hardware problem

[Dmytro Kovalev <Dmytro.Kovalev@example.com>]

>>>>> "Dave" == Dave Gutteridge <dave@example.com> writes:



    Dave> The tape is about 600 megs in total, and I have 680 megs of
    Dave> free space on the drive I am trying to move it to.So i
    Dave> suspect that it's not actually that it doesn't have enough
    Dave> space, but that it thinks it's lacking space because I'm not
    Dave> adding some perameter or something.

You may try add count= as well. If you set bs=512, and want to read
600M of data then count will be 600M / 0.5k = 1228800.

dd if=/dev/... of=... bs=512 count=1228800

- dmytro

	

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