Gene Heskett wrote:
> On Monday 22 July 2002 16:25, Eduardo Ceva wrote:
>
>>Hi, wich command of mt writes to the tape??? thanks a lot!!!
>>
>>ceva
>
>
> AFAIK, no command from mt except a rewind (if there is unwritten
> data still in the drives buffer) will cause any data to goto the
> tape medium.
>
I assume these two commands do some "writes" to the tape:
mt weof # Write eof marker to tape
mt erase # Erase the tape
(maybe the question was about how safe is the "mt" command in regarding
overwriting data on a tape)
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