Hi Jaime:
You can delete the last volume that you have written to tape by ftape if
you use the command vtblc from ftape-tools. The command vtblc -t will
truncate the last volume that has been written to tape, without affecting
the previous volumes. Do "vtblc --help" to get the commands options on
vtblc.
Raymond Kwong
On Wed, 6 Jan 1999, Jaime D O Lima Jr wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I suppose that that ftape only permits the application task to write at
> start of the tape and at the end (EOM) the tape (i.e. after all
> preexistent volumes).
>
> Sometimes, when appending a new volume to tape, I have a fail in
> operation or while verifying this new volume (I have a Ditto Max
> Parallel :( ...). When this thing happens I can't delete the recent
> appended volume without arm the previous ones - it seems that the tape
> device driver doesn't let me do that. I think that should be possible to
>
> write to a tape just after any volume it already contains (blowing up
> all the files after it, of course, but preserving the ones before it).
>
> If somebody knows how to do that in the current driver, please let me
> know. I suppose that what I am trying to do is not technically
> impossible to tape machine to perform. Actually, I think I could do
> that using the "Iomega Works" software (Using another tape/format, of
> course).
>
> Best Regards,
> Jaime.
>
