On Tue, 2 Jan 2001, John Maier wrote:

> dump guessed I needed 1.18 tapes(20 Gig DLT) to backup:
> Filesystem     1K-blocks     Used    Avail Capacity  Mounted on
> /dev/ca0a        4049310    44610  3802234     1%    /
>
> Which is quite wrong.

"alias dump=dump -B 20000000000".

All those zero's make me dizzy. I think it would be cool if "dump"
took "-B 0" to mean "just stuff as much as will fit onto the tape".

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Frederick