Tuesday, December 03, 2019

Re: dump truncation

On Tue, Dec 03, 2019 at 11:03:22AM +0100, Jan Stary wrote:

> This is current/amd64.
>
> It seems 'dump -f file' does not truncate the output file
> when it starts writing it. Is that on purpose?
> Is that a relict of the tape days?
>
> Jan
>

Yes.

-Otto

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