Brad Noyes wrote:
Brad Noyes wrote:
512 byte chucks.
How do you get the byte size of a chuck? just a guess. For some reason 512 bytes stuck in my head as a block size so i
On Thu, Jul 18, 2002 at 09:39:48PM -0400, doug waud wrote: tried it and it worked.
i did some more looking and i found some info on how tar handles things http://www.gnu.org/manual/tar/html_node/tar_130.html
And this site give some good information on block sizes and tapes, under the "BLOCK SIZES" section http://www.faqs.org/faqs/aix-faq/part2/section-1.html
also in mt's man page, there is an option to set the block size (setblk), which only works for scsi tapes.
For example, if we pipe Homic and/or Anderson to chucksize what would the output be?
i don't understand what your asking here.
I guess I should restate the question: How do you guess the byte size of a chuck? :-) (I was using that typo to have fun with Homic and Anderson) Sorry, I did not intend to be taken seriously; normally nobody does! :-) doug