--On Friday, June 03, 2005 10:14:50 -0500 "Erik P. Olsen" <erik AT epo DOT dk> 
wrote:

> On Fri, 2005-06-03 at 13:21 +0200, Paul Bijnens wrote:
>> Erik P. Olsen wrote:
>> > Hi,
>> > 
>> > Could someone explain to me what the message below from amdump
> means?
>> > Especially the "fm 7 [OK]"
>> 
>> fm = filemark: what a tape writes after a file.
>> [OK] means there were not errors so far.
> 
> OK, not to be confused with no. of dumped files, I assume.

Technically, it is the number of files written to to tape, but each
file is a dump image consisting of many source files, so think
of it as a count of the DLEs written to tape.

Frank

>> 
>> > 
>> >   taper: tape DailySet103 kb 1131232 fm 7 [OK]
>> > 
>> > Thanks.
>> 
>> 
> -- 
> Regards,
> Erik P. Olsen
> GPG http://pgp.mit.edu 0x71375E63



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