--On Friday, June 03, 2005 10:14:50 -0500 "Erik P. Olsen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Fri, 2005-06-03 at 13:21 +0200, Paul Bijnens wrote: >> Erik P. Olsen wrote: >> > Hi, >> > >> > Could someone explain to me what the message below from amdump > means? >> > Especially the "fm 7 [OK]" >> >> fm = filemark: what a tape writes after a file. >> [OK] means there were not errors so far. > > OK, not to be confused with no. of dumped files, I assume. Technically, it is the number of files written to to tape, but each file is a dump image consisting of many source files, so think of it as a count of the DLEs written to tape. Frank >> >> > >> > taper: tape DailySet103 kb 1131232 fm 7 [OK] >> > >> > Thanks. >> >> > -- > Regards, > Erik P. Olsen > GPG http://pgp.mit.edu 0x71375E63 -- Frank Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sr. Systems Administrator Voice: 512-374-4673 Hoover's Online Fax: 512-374-4501
