From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Aug 23 19:58:27 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id TAA06371 for questions-outgoing; Fri, 23 Aug 1996 19:58:27 -0700 (PDT) Received: from freenet.hamilton.on.ca (main.freenet.hamilton.on.ca [199.212.94.65]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id TAA06358 for ; Fri, 23 Aug 1996 19:58:22 -0700 (PDT) Received: from james.freenet.hamilton.on.ca (james.freenet.hamilton.on.ca [199.212.94.66]) by freenet.hamilton.on.ca (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id WAA17666; Fri, 23 Aug 1996 22:58:06 -0400 (EDT) Received: (from ac199@localhost) by james.freenet.hamilton.on.ca (8.7.5/8.7.3) id WAA07576; Fri, 23 Aug 1996 22:59:50 -0400 (EDT) Date: Fri, 23 Aug 1996 22:59:48 -0400 (EDT) From: Tim Vanderhoek To: Bora Akyol cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Help on block size in tar In-Reply-To: <199608240026.RAA00691@wireless.Stanford.EDU> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Fri, 23 Aug 1996, Bora Akyol wrote: > > What is the default blocksize of tar on FreeBSD, I have made a tape > on a freebsd system and now cannot read it on a linux system. It complains > about block size not being right. I believe the default block size for tar on FreeBSD is 20, as stated in the manpage. However, FreeBSD uses GNU tar, and I suspect Linux also uses GNU tar, so I would expect the default block size to be the same on both. -- Outnumbered? Maybe. Outspoken? Never! tIM...HOEk