Received: (from mail@localhost) by linux-xfs.sgi.com (8.12.0.Beta5/8.12.0.Beta5) id f595PjK3024924 for linux-xfs-outgoing; Fri, 8 Jun 2001 22:25:45 -0700 X-Authentication-Warning: linux-xfs.sgi.com: mail set sender to owner-linux-xfs@oss.sgi.com using -f Received: from sgi.com (sgi.SGI.COM [192.48.153.1]) by linux-xfs.sgi.com (8.12.0.Beta5/8.12.0.Beta5) with SMTP id f595Pi3D024921 for ; Fri, 8 Jun 2001 22:25:44 -0700 Received: from larry.melbourne.sgi.com (larry.melbourne.sgi.com [134.14.52.130]) by sgi.com (980327.SGI.8.8.8-aspam/980304.SGI-aspam: SGI does not authorize the use of its proprietary systems or networks for unsolicited or bulk email from the Internet.) via SMTP id WAA05527 for ; Fri, 8 Jun 2001 22:25:42 -0700 (PDT) mail_from (ivanr@melbourne.sgi.com) Received: from omen.melbourne.sgi.com (omen.melbourne.sgi.com [134.14.55.139]) by larry.melbourne.sgi.com (950413.SGI.8.6.12/950213.SGI.AUTOCF) via ESMTP id PAA08655; Sat, 9 Jun 2001 15:24:25 +1000 From: ivanr@melbourne.sgi.com (Ivan Rayner) Received: from localhost (ivanr@localhost) by omen.melbourne.sgi.com (SGI-8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id PAA92555; Sat, 9 Jun 2001 15:24:25 +1000 (EST) X-Authentication-Warning: omen.melbourne.sgi.com: ivanr owned process doing -bs Date: Sat, 9 Jun 2001 15:24:24 +1000 To: Russel Ingram cc: Subject: Re: xfsdump, paride tape, and -m option In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-linux-xfs@oss.sgi.com Precedence: bulk On Sat, 9 Jun 2001, Russel Ingram wrote: > On Sat, 9 Jun 2001, Ivan Rayner wrote: > > The argument to -b should be bytes, so 16k would be 16384 not 16. > > > > If this doesn't fix your problem, could you use -v5 to get verbose output. > > (This might produce alot of output, so you should redirect it to a file.) > > > > Ivan > It wasn't clear (to me anyway) what the syntax on the -b option was > supposed to be to get 16k blocksize, so thanks. Agreed. I'll update the man page next week. Ivan -- Ivan Rayner ivanr@melbourne.sgi.com