From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jun 27 8:34:13 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from dan.emsphone.com (dan.emsphone.com [199.67.51.101]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 12F5337B9C6 for ; Tue, 27 Jun 2000 08:34:08 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dan@dan.emsphone.com) Received: (from dan@localhost) by dan.emsphone.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id KAA27561; Tue, 27 Jun 2000 10:33:58 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from dan) Date: Tue, 27 Jun 2000 10:33:58 -0500 From: Dan Nelson To: Abel Mayal Cc: FreeBSD Subject: Re: SCSI tape drive Message-ID: <20000627103358.C19374@dan.emsphone.com> References: <004401bfe03d$05678340$fc709284@futures.bt.co.uk> <20000627101523.B19374@dan.emsphone.com> <004a01bfe043$43acec20$fc709284@futures.bt.co.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.4i In-Reply-To: <004a01bfe043$43acec20$fc709284@futures.bt.co.uk>; from "Abel Mayal" on Tue Jun 27 15:23:27 GMT 2000 X-OS: FreeBSD 5.0-CURRENT Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In the last episode (Jun 27), Abel Mayal said: > If I do "tar cvf /dev/nrsa0 /usr" it writes all the data from /usr to > the tape. BUT, how can I access to the tape to see what is inside? I > tried "mount /dev/nrsa0 /mnt" but it says "Block device required". Is > it possible to have access like in a floppy? Or how can I check what > is inside the tape? To list the contents of a tar file, "tar tvf /dev/rsa0". To extract: "tar xvf /dev/rsa0". /dev/nrsa0 is the "no-rewind" device. Useful if you are putting more than one tarfile on a tape. /dev/rsa0 is the "rewind" device. Use it if you're only got one file on the tape. -- Dan Nelson dnelson@emsphone.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message