On Sat, Jun 16, 2001 at 01:07:35PM +0100, Georges Heinesch wrote:
> Hi.
> 
> Some basic dump questions.
> 
> 1. Is the default blocksize of 1024 Bytes taken from the
>    environment variable BLOCKSIZE, defined in ~/.tcshrc (or whatever
>    shell is used)?

No, it's hardwired.

> 
> 2. While making a backup to a 1 GB JAZ (it could also be some other
>    partition, doesn't matter ...), dump requests a volume change after
>    39.260.160 Bytes. For some reason, it only writes 3.834 Blocks. Why
>    is this?

This comes from the default length and density

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Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
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