Hi Raja, Please see below.
On Tue, Feb 23, 2010 at 8:23 PM, Raja Subramanian <[email protected]> wrote: > On Tue, Feb 23, 2010 at 7:27 PM, Arun Khan <[email protected]> wrote: >> Did not try mt -f /dev/nst0 fsf 1 though. Seems like a complicated >> process if I have to repeat "mt -f /dev/nst0 fsf 1" for 500+ K files >> that are typically found in animation/sfx archives. > > Ah, now I understand the back ground. > > A few months ago, I had to help someone extracting zillions of dpx files > from an LTO3 tape created on an IRIX box. I used an external HP SCSI > tape drive on a CentOS box and extracted everything using this command: > tar -b 1024 -xMvf /dev/nst0 > > Took a lot of head-scratching to find that the -M flag did the trick. > > However, I can't remember if I got the Block of NULs error which you > mention. YMMV. Going by the hypothesis that the tape indeed had "multi volume" and that I used the incorrect device /dev/st0 (instead of /dev/nst0), I think it is a reasonable assumption that there would be much more than "one" file in each volume (considering my tape archive was supposed to have animation frames)? So in my case there should have been more than one file in the first volume, retrieved using /dev/st0, Any thoughts/comments? Thanks, -- Arun Khan _______________________________________________ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
