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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!simtel!news1.oakland.edu!vtc.tacom.army.mil!ulowell.uml.edu!wang!news.kei.com!news.mathworks.com!news.alpha.net!uwm.edu!vixen.cso.uiuc.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!Germany.EU.net!nntp.gmd.de!not-for-mail From: kaeber@marvin.gmd.de (Joachim Kaeber) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: 2.0.5 tape blocksize??? Date: 14 Jun 1995 09:29:32 +0200 Organization: GMD, Sankt Augustin, Germany Lines: 19 Message-ID: <3rm34s$3d4@marvin.gmd.de> References: <3rja69$9fu@canyon.sr.hp.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: marvin.gmd.de In <3rja69$9fu@canyon.sr.hp.com> darrylo@sr.hp.com (Darryl Okahata) writes: > When installing from DAT tape, what blocksize should be used for >tar? Using the default blocksize (10240 bytes) when making the tape, >the 2.0.5 install fails when reading the tape. The error message is >something like the tape blocksize is too big. GNU tar 1.11.2 was used >to make the tape. sysinstall uses cpio with the '-B' flag, so the blocksize is set to 5120 bytes. The following setup worked for me: tar cf - dir0 dir1 ... dirN | dd of=/dev/rst0 obs=5120 Good Luck! -- Joachim Kaeber, MAT Gesellschaft fuer Mathematik und Datenverarbeitung mbH (GMD) Schloss Birlinghoven email: kaeber@gmd.de D-53757 Sankt Augustin 1, FRG phone: (+49 2241) 14-2294