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> On Sat, Aug 2, 2008 at 8:53 PM, Hemchand
<hemchandra_413@ yahoo..co. in> wrote:
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> > Guys,
> >
> > Silly reply !!!!!!!!!!!!
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> > Mount the Hardware on linux and use rm command for deleting a
file.Is this
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> > work for you ?
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>
> Hemchand, a tape is a character device. It cannot be mounted. You
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> cannot use regular operations like cp, rm, mv on character devices.
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> Example, if your tape drive is /dev/st0, the following commands are
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> invalid:
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> cp some_file.txt /dev/st0
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> rm -f /dev/st0/some_ file.txt
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>
>
> Hope you get the idea.
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>
>
> To manipulate tape drives, you need to understand the mt command.
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>
>
> Regards,
>
> NMK.
> Hi Nadeem,
> Thanks man.A lot to study... :-(.I know Technology is so vast.
>
> Hemchand
>
Hi,
Tapes operate in sequential mode. You can either read them
sequentially in full or append more data. It's not possible to remove
a file
Thanks & Regards
Prashant Karmankar
