The 'mt' command on my system does not support setting
block sizes. What can I do? IS there a way to still
use flexbackup?
# man mt
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mt(1)
mt(1)
NAME
mt - Magnetic tape manipulating program
SYNOPSIS
mt [-f tape_device] command [count]
The mt program gives commands to a magnetic tape
drive.
DESCRIPTION
If you do not specify a tape name with the -f flag,
the TAPE environment
variable is used; if TAPE does not exist, mt uses
the /dev/nrmt0h device.
Note that tape_device must refer to a raw (not
block) tape device. By
default, mt performs the requested operation once.
Operations can be per-
formed more than once by specifying count.
The following commands are available:
eof, weof
Writes count End-of-File marks at the current
position on the tape.
fsf Forward spaces count files.
fsr Forward spaces count records.
bsf Backspaces count files.
bsr Backspaces count records.
rewind
Rewinds the tape (count is ignored).
offline, rewoffl
Rewinds the tape and places the tape unit
offline (count is ignored).
unload
Prepares a SCSI tape for removal from the
device. Not all SCSI tape
drives support this functionality.
online
Bring a SCSI tape to the ready state if a tape
is in the tape path.
Currently, this command is only supported in the
SCSI/CAM tape driver.
Not all SCSI tape drives support this
functionality.
seod
Space to end of recorded data. Currently, this
command is only sup-
ported in the SCSI/CAM tape driver. Not all
SCSI tape drives support
this functionality.
status
Prints status information about the tape unit.
Only as many characters as are required to uniquely
identify a command need
to be specified.
FLAGS
-f tape_device
Specifies the tape device to be
manipulated.
RETURN VALUES
The mt command returns a 0 (zero) exit status when
the operations were suc-
cessful, a 1 if the command was unrecognized, and a
2 if the operation
failed.
FILES
/dev/nrmt*
Raw magnetic tape interface with no rewind
when closed.
/dev/rmt* Raw magnetic tape interface with rewind
when closed.
RELATED INFORMATION
Commands: dd(1).
Functions: ioctl(2).
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