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Article #694Re: HELP: tape experts!!!! URGENT
From: Eric Lawson
Date: Thu, 14 Jan 1999 00:00
Date: Thu, 14 Jan 1999 00:00
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Markus Kohler wrote: (snip) > I have written tar files onto the tape using "cat filename > > /dev/nftape". When I had written everything I checked the status with > "mt -f /dev/nftape status" and indeed the data must have been written, > because there were only some 114 Meg left instead of the 400Meg before. (snip) > How can I get beyond this border line? Is there any way? I tried cat, dd > etc. Nothing worked. > Get to the end of the tape, tell mt to move the tape to the next block and then try to continue on. I think the command is mt -f /dev/nftape fsr Check the man page first. You may lose one block of data, but hopefully you can work around it This is about the best that I can do. Eric
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