Re: (clug-talk) ide tape drive

[Nathanael Noblet]

On Thursday, January 16, 2003, at 01:51  PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

so I should be able to just send stuff to it from
tar as in
tar "options" /dev/ht0 stuff

How do I make a file system on this thing?

You don't. After each archive you create on the tape (and this is simply me thinking out loud) an EOF (end of file) is placed. You can use mt to move between each file. umm like this I think

mt -f /dev/nst0 fsf 2
Which would move the tape forward to the third archive on the tape

mt -f /dev/nst0 rewind

mt -f /dev/nst0 erase

self explanatory...
use man mt for more info.
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