On Wed, 29 Nov 2006, Andrew Perrin wrote:
OK gang, I figured it out... sometimes it just takes a really old book like _Essential System Administration_, 1st ed., to work on these things.
yow, I can't remember when I last used mt on a tape (or used a tape for that matter)
Do you know why tar doesn't do it?
The dd command takes the gzipped input and pads it (that's what conv=sync means) to the output block size, in this case 512, which can be discovered using mt -f /dev/nst0 status.
presumably only the last block needs to be padded? Thanks Joe -- Joseph Mack NA3T EME(B,D), FM05lw North Carolina jmack (at) wm7d (dot) net - azimuthal equidistant map generator at http://www.wm7d.net/azproj.shtml Homepage http://www.austintek.com/ It's GNU/Linux! -- TriLUG mailing list : http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug TriLUG Organizational FAQ : http://trilug.org/faq/ TriLUG Member Services FAQ : http://members.trilug.org/services_faq/
