Hi,
what about a /tape directory?
mkdir /tape or /mnt/tape or /whatever/tape
mount /tape or ...
Tom
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From: "Mike Dresser" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "James Jim Hatridge" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>;
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Sent: Thursday, May 17, 2001 10:01 PM
Subject: Re: SCSI Tape drive....
> > I believe that that is ok. I think that the problem is below. This is
what I
> > added to my fstab file for the tape drive.
> > ...............................................
> > /dev/tape /tape auto
noauto,user,nodev 0 0
> > ................................................
> >
> > This is what I get when I try to mount the tape.
> >
> > .............................
> > Penguin:~ # mount /tape
> > mount: /dev/tape is not a block device
> > Penguin:~ #
> > ............................
>
> Um. Tapes aren't block devices, you don't mount them.. you just set your
> destination as /dev/st0, and write to that.
> e.g. tar -cvpf /dev/st0 filetobackup
>
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> mike
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