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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!msunews!agate!spool.mu.edu!torn!newshost.uwo.ca!home-pc1.business.uwo.ca!mbramwel From: mbramwel@ardsley.business.uwo.ca (Mark Bramwell) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.unix.bsd.386bsd.misc,comp.unix.bsd.misc Subject: How Do I read a FreeBSD tape under Linux? (tar) Date: Wed, 6 Sep 1995 22:31:16 GMT Organization: Western Business School Lines: 14 Message-ID: <mbramwel.1683.304E2134@ardsley.business.uwo.ca> NNTP-Posting-Host: home-pc1.business.uwo.ca X-Newsreader: Trumpet for Windows [Version 1.0 Rev B final beta #4] Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:5645 comp.unix.bsd.386bsd.misc:169 comp.unix.bsd.misc:207 I tarred a bunch of files off a pc running FreeBSD unix. eg: tar cvf /dev/tape * I took the same tape drive, hooked it up to linux and tried to untar the files eg: tar xvf /dev/tape I get an I/O error. The tape drive works ok. I can tar to & from the tape just fine. I think that the blocksize or something else is different between the two unix clones. Does anyone know what the command line is for untarring a FreeBSD tar tape on a linux system?