X-Git-Url: https://git.wh0rd.org/?a=blobdiff_plain;f=dump%2Fdump.8.in;h=52b8713a98ae8ea4f5796af3ce05588aed03bf97;hb=aca7d867ae18bd62627f16ef90e58b433b881056;hp=836585614481ef0e26d65194b613cf5ce82635f0;hpb=816bf0d9a643ed425d9677064d58b626d7df7b70;p=dump.git diff --git a/dump/dump.8.in b/dump/dump.8.in index 8365856..52b8713 100644 --- a/dump/dump.8.in +++ b/dump/dump.8.in @@ -30,7 +30,7 @@ .\" OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF .\" SUCH DAMAGE. .\" -.\" $Id: dump.8.in,v 1.23 2001/03/23 14:40:12 stelian Exp $ +.\" $Id: dump.8.in,v 1.24 2001/03/28 12:59:48 stelian Exp $ .\" .Dd __DATE__ .Dt DUMP 8 @@ -112,7 +112,7 @@ copy all files new or modified since the last dump of a lower level. The default level is 9. .It Fl B Ar records -The number of 1 KB blocks per volume. +The number of 1 kB blocks per volume. This option overrides the end-of-media detection, and calculation of tape size based on length and density. .It Fl a @@ -126,7 +126,7 @@ existing tape, or using a tape drive with hardware compression .It Fl b Ar blocksize The number of kilobytes per dump record. Since the IO system slices all requests into chunks of MAXBSIZE -(typically 64KB), it is not possible to use a larger blocksize +(typically 64kB), it is not possible to use a larger blocksize without having problems later with .Xr restore 8 . Therefore