* K L Bhavani [linux-india] <18/04/01 10:00 -0500>:
> I am unable to mount the tape drive, I am getting an error message which
> is as follows:
> mount: /dev/tape is not a block device
> what are the parameters required for mounting the tape drive in fstab or
> mtab file.
Obviously a tape drive is not a block device. So you can't mount it.
Just create a tarball and dump it to /dev/st0 (or whatever).
There's this app called BRU (backup and restore utility) you might want to
check out.
-s
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